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

TY - JOUR

T1 - Bending Towards Justice:

T2 - Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Assessment of History

AU - Carter, Dale

PY - 1996/9/1

Y1 - 1996/9/1

N2 - This article 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.

AB - This article 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.

KW - United States

KW - race relations

KW - civil rights movement

KW - Martin Luther King, Jr.

KW - historiography

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0044-8060

VL - 28

SP - 128

EP - 141

JO - American Studies in Scandinavia

JF - American Studies in Scandinavia

IS - 2

ER -