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Joseph Mangano's avatar

Thank you for this piece. Any discussion of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legacy is incomplete without an understanding of the context of his words and an appreciation for how his work sought to tackle racial and economic injustice as intertwined, inherent flaws in our society.

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Jim Carmichael's avatar

Thank you for correcting the misperception of MLK Day, and explaining Reagan’s co-opting of the legacy. I grew up in Atlanta and heard King speak to the SCLC in 1964 at the first integrated meeting at The Marriott. It may be a bitter pill for some people to learn that LBJ did the footwork on the Civil Rights Act, and has a legacy beyond escalation of the war in Viet Nam. I am sorry to see the corruption of headlines in the mainstream press when so many fine journalists helped us win the 1964 civil rights battle and uncovered the truth of the horrors of that war. King’s writings deserve much more serious study than they have yet received.

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