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Ministers Look to Revive Martin Luther King’s 1968 Poverty Campaign | The New York Times When 12 religious leaders in collars and vestments were arrested last week in the atrium of the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, they were reading Bible verses about caring for the poor, and doing it so loudly that their voices could be heard at the doors of senators’ office suites nine stories above.

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Yes, the Martin Luther King Jr. Estate Approved That Ram Trucks Super Bowl Ad | Slate The use of King’s voice in the ad wasn’t just jarring for its tastelessness

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Remembering the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike | AFRO A War for Black Respect—“I Am A Man”

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Martin Luther King Jr.’s scorn for ‘white moderates’ in his Birmingham jail letter | The Washington Post The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. began writing the “Letter From a Birmingham Jail” in the margins of newspapers, on scraps of paper, paper towels and slips of yellow legal paper smuggled into his cell, where he was kept in solitary confinement after being arrested April 12, 1963, on charges of violating Alabama’s law against mass public demonstrations.

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Bessie Rogers and Taylor Rogers | StoryCorps Retired Memphis, Tennessee sanitation worker Taylor Rodgers and his wife, Bessie, were at the Mason Temple on April 3, 1968 when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his famous speech “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”.

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Meet the theologian who helped MLK see the value of nonviolence | The Conversation On this anniversary of King’s birthday, it’s worth looking at how King learned to integrate spiritual growth and social transformation.

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Martin Luther King Jr. statue to rise on Georgia Capitol, as Confederate monuments fall | Chicago Tribune The sculpted clay was dry and the bronze would soon be cast, but artist Martin Dawe still found himself waking with a start before dawn, worried that he didn't get the details of the famous man's face exactly right.

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The forgotten assassination of Dr. King’s mother – Rolling Out Every American student knows that Dr. Martin L. King Jr. was assassinated by James Earle Ray, but very few are aware of the murder of his mother, Alberta Williams King.

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Surviving Freedom Riders Recall Violence Faced 55 Years Ago