January 17, 2012 • 8:23 am 0
The unfortunate Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial in Washington—as unequal to its subject as Maya Lin’s magnificently somber Vietnam War memorial is worthy of its—has gotten a little taste of the comeuppance it …
MORE via Hendrik Hertzberg: King Day (I): Quote Unquote : The New Yorker.
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January 17, 2012 • 8:14 am 0
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech is one of the most important pieces of oratory in American history. Every year, countless thousands of school children commit the speech to …
MORE via Dr. King’s ‘Dream’ and the ‘promissory note’ to black Americans.
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October 17, 2011 • 5:04 am 0
Martin Luther King was a preacher, a visionary, and an activist; one of the people who immediately had a clear sense about what protests against Jim Crow segregation could mean.
When King gave his first speech in what would become the civil rights movement, he spoke to a …
MORE via Memorial to King honors an entire movement.
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October 16, 2011 • 2:53 pm 0
Thousands of people have gathered at dawn to give the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial a proper …
MORE via Obama to Dedicate MLK Memorial in Capital – WSJ.com.
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