The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a brilliant man who tried to love America into living up to its creed and to its grand ideals.  A lot has been said and written about Dr. King, yet there is still so much to be said, because there are so many ways to look at what he did, what he said, and how he processed the world around him.  Today, we are fighting the same struggles with which he wrestled.  Here is one of my takes on Dr. King.

A Few Resources:

Beyond Vietnam—A Time to Break Silence speech at Riverside Church in New York, April 4, 1967 https://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm

Stanford University:  The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (online) https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/ There is a treasure trove of information at this site, the repository for the King papers.

Where Do We Go From Here:  Chaos or Community, by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1967)

In the Spirit of Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Bessemer Workers Fight for Justice. https://www.workers.org/2021/03/55465/

When Muhammad Ali Refused to go to Vietnam:  Muhammad Ali and Vietnam. https://www.theatlantic.com/news/archive/2016/06/muhammad-ali-vietnam/485717/

Short video on Muhammad Ali (“You my enemy.”  https://youtu.be/HeFMyrWlZ68)

FBI ’Honors’ Martin Luther King Jr., 50 Years After Plotting to ’Neutralize’ him.  https://www.alternet.org/2017/01/fbi-honors-martin-luther-king-jr-50-years-after-plotting-neutralize-him/

How the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers’ Strike Expanded the Civil Rights Struggle:  https://www.history.com/news/sanitation-workers-strike-memphis