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359: Martin Luther King's Dream

The Rest Is History

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Martin Luther King's March on Washington

Malcolm X, who is not a Christian, has converted to Islam. He says, I am for violence. If non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence. Right. So Martin Luther King is actually treading quite a fine line, isn't he? Because on the one hand, he has black activists who may be tempted to side with Malcolm X’s arguments that non-violence is a busted flush. And on the other hand, Martin Luther King needs to appear to white liberals. To try and recruit them to the cause as well. There has never been an arch like it. The idea of huge hundreds of

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