Historians fear MLK's legacy being lost

Associated Press by Deepti Hajela | Jan. 21, 2008 (Special Report)

Nearly 40 years after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., some say his legacy is being frozen in a moment in time that ignores the full complexity of the man and his message.

"Everyone knows -- even the smallest kid knows about Martin Luther King -- can say his most famous moment was that 'I have a dream' speech," said Henry Louis Taylor Jr., professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Buffalo. "No one can go ... Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The line most telling is: "If we forget that, then it seems like the only people we can get behind must be popular," Harris-Lacewell said. "Following King meant following the unpopular road, not the popular one." Speaking of a symbol manipulated to their own purposes, the head of Boeing's IDS division that builds arms for the defense department quoted to all employees the MLK statement that "Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." Nothing else in the message indicated any awareness of Kings message of putting down nukes and weapons and warfare as destructive to humankind. It did pick up on civil rights, suggesting that black and white we can all work on missiles together. hmmm...

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