Bending Towards Justice: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Assessment of History

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Description

This keynote address surveys trends in the scholarly literature on Martin Luther King, Jr. and his relationship to the campaign for racial justice in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s. It relates shifts in King's own status to transformations in the concerns of academic analyses of the movement: from the national to the local level and from top-down to bottom-up.
Period14 Jan 1994
Event titleMartin Luther King, Jr. Day Conference
Event typeConference
LocationCopenhagen, DenmarkShow on map
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • civil rights
  • United States
  • historiography