PPN: | 510280900  |
Titel: | Living the dream : the contested history of Martin Luther King Jr. Day / Daniel T. Fleming |
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Erschienen: | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2023 |
Vertrieb: | Oxford : Oxford University Press |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (326 pages) : Illustrations (black and white). |
Serie: | Justice, power, and politics North Carolina scholarship online |
Anmerkung: | Previously issued in print: 2022 Includes bibliographical references and index |
ISBN: | 978-1-4696-6783-6 ; 978-1-46-966781-2 |
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Abstract: | 'Living the Dream' tells the history behind the establishment of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Though Coretta Scott King's mission to honour her husband's commitment to nonviolence was upheld, conservative politicians have sought to use the holiday to advance a whitewashed, nationalistic and even reactionary vision of King's life and thought. This book reveals the lengths that activists had to go to elevate an African American man to the pantheon of national heroes, how conservatives took advantage of the commemoration to bend the arc of King's legacy toward something he never would have expected, and how grassroots causes, unions and antiwar demonstrators continued to try to claim this sanctified day as their own. |
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