Misremembering Dr. King [electronic resource] : revisiting the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. / Jennifer J. Yanco.
Material type: TextSeries: UPCC book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 9780253014245
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Political and social views
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Baptists -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography
- Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
- Nonviolence -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- 323.092 B 23
- E185.97.K5 Y36 2014
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Memory and forgetting -- The misappropriation of memory -- What we remember -- Dr. King and the civil rights movement -- Dr. King and nonviolence -- What we forget: Dr. King's warning about the "giant triplets." -- Militarism -- Materialism -- Racism -- Why it matters. -- Whose problem? White America's special responsibility -- A challenge for all of us.
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