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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828510703321

Autore

Yanco Jennifer J

Titolo

Misremembering Dr. King : revisiting the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. / / Jennifer J. Yanco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-253-01424-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (111 p.)

Disciplina

323.092

Soggetti

Civil rights movements - United States - History - 20th century

Nonviolence - United States - History - 20th century

Civil rights workers - United States

Baptists - United States - Clergy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

We all know the name. Martin Luther King Jr, the great American civil rights leader. But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and racism-what he called the ""giant triplets."" Jennifer J. Yanco takes steps to redress this imbalance. ""My objective is to highlight the important aspects of Dr. King's work which have all but disappeared from popular memory, so that more of us can 'really see King.'"" After briefly telling the familiar story of King's civil rights campaigns and accomplishments, she considers the lesser-known concer