Schlagwort: Martin Luther King
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Hannah Sell: Fighting for a promised land
[Socialism Today, No 27, April 1998, p. 25-29] Thirty years ago this April Martin Luther King was assassinated as he demonstrated in support of a sanitation workers’ strike in Memphis, Tennessee. His death sparked riots in over 100 cities across America. Hannah Sell looks at life and ideas of the civil rights leader who inspired…
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Phil Frampton: Jesse Jackson and the black struggle
[Militant International Review, No 37, Summer 1988, p. 22-27] Twenty years ago Martin Luther King, America’s foremost black civil rights activist, was assassinated. Two decades later the successes of Jesse Jackson’s campaign for the Democratic nomination in the 1988 US Presidential elections has once again raised the question, which way forward for blacks in the…