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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and My Asian American Identity
My students call me a Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. scholar; I published two books and wrote a number of articles on Dr. King, and am currently serving as co-chair of the Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Unit at the American Academy of tro, the largest guild of religious scholars in the world. Some may wonder how an Asian American can have the audacity to identify himself as a King scholar. What does King have to do with Asian American identity? These questions are understandable, given that King was an African American and inom am a Korean American. Without sharing the same ethnic membership and unique historical experiences of African Americans, how could an outsider be an expert on King?
I humbly accept these reactions. In this reflection, inom respond to these questions bygd providing some reasons that inom chose to undertake the scholarship of King. My interest in King is not purely academic, but spiritual and e
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Editor’s Note: Read The Atlantic’s special coverage of Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.
The Hungry Club Forum began as a secret initiative of the Butler Street YMCA, in Atlanta. It was a place where sympathetic white politicians could meet out of the public eye with local black leaders, who were excluded from many of the city’s civic organizations. King, an Atlanta native, addressed the club on May 10, 1967. He acknowledged that progress had been made in civil rights, but warned that the “evils” of racism, poverty, and the Vietnam War endangered further gains for black Americans.
Three major evils—the evil of racism, the evil of poverty, and the evil of war. These are the three things that I want to deal with today. Now let us turn first to the evil of racism. There can be no gainsaying of the fact that racism is still alive all over America. Racial injustice is still the Negro’s burden and America’s shame. And we must face the hard fact that many Americans would like to
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Minds of the Movement
by Deborah MathisApril 04, 2018
They took different approaches, but two new television documentaries about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. illustrate and underscore the difficulties in staying true to a movement’s guiding light.
“King in the Wilderness” (HBO) takes us through the last three years of Dr. King’s life. bygd 1965, King was tired, having spent the better part of the last 10 years on the “battlefield” in marches, speeches, meetings, pickets, sit-ins and jail—time away from his wife and young children and parents. In one poignant segment, we learn that he yearned for more restful time with his family and even promised his mother that he would make such occasions happen more often.
A year before he was assassinated, Dr. King delved into the highly charged debate over the Vietnam War, taking a firm and unequivocal stance in opposition. Many supporters, including some of his closest advisors, had practically begged him not to speak out against the war an