Obama and King
Adele Oltman : Religion
As Obama accepts his party's presidential nomination on the forty-fifth anniversary of King's most famous speech, a historian looks beyond the obvious analogies.


Adele Oltman : Religion
As Obama accepts his party's presidential nomination on the forty-fifth anniversary of King's most famous speech, a historian looks beyond the obvious analogies.
Bruce Wallace : History
MLK's biographer on presidents, politics, racial injustice, poverty and war.
Grace Lee Boggs : Civil Rights Movement
No single person can be the agent of change: the vision must come from all of us.

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