Roundtables - AAIHS - Page 43

Martin Luther King Jr. and Workers’ Rights in Baltimore

April 4, 2018April 7, 2018 Jane Berger Baltimore, capitalism, Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities, Resistance

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. In 1968, municipal sanitation workers

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The King of Atlanta: Martin Luther King Jr. and Public Memory

April 3, 2018April 7, 2018 Maurice J. Hobson Activism, Atlanta, civil rights, Civil Rights Movement, Historical Memory, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. On April 4th, the world

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Memorializing Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, DC

April 2, 2018April 7, 2018 Marya McQuirter Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities, Washington DC

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. My introduction to Reverend

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Martin Luther King Jr. and Milwaukee: 200 Nights and a Tragedy

April 2, 2018April 7, 2018 Mark Speltz Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr., MLK and American Cities

*This post is part of our forum on Martin Luther King Jr.’s impact on American cities. The tragic murder of Dr.

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Writing on Poor Whites and Slavery in the Antebellum South

March 9, 2018March 15, 2018 Keri Leigh Merritt #MasterlessMen, poverty, reconstruction, slavery, South

*This post is part of our roundtable on Keri Leigh Merritt’s Masterless Men. First, I want to take a moment to thank the

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