Nicci fairies biography of martin luther king

This Little Golden Book captures the essence of Martin Luther King, Jr. for the littlest readers.

In this memoir, Martin Luther King Jr.'s son gives an intimate look at the man and the father behind the civil rights leader.

Martin Luther King, Jr. dreamed about a day when people would not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

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Briefly recounts the life of the black minister who devoted his life to civil rights and discusses the national holiday in his name: Martin Luther King Day celebrated on the third Monday of every January.

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Genres: Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS: 323.092 — Social sciences Political science Civil and political rights Civil Rights Biography And History Biography
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The Annual ‘Misremembering Dr. King’ Editorials Roll In

Holidays inspire patriotic clichés. Late December is when kids learn the Pentagon is a kid-friendly organization that tracks Santa Claus. On Thanksgiving, we see violence-averse presidents pardon defenseless turkeys.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day is more complicated. Newspapers that during his lifetime denounced the great and complicated man “celebrate” him through an agonizing ritual.

The chief elements are usually a humiliating caricature, followed by an effort to enlist King as an ally in the current political fixations of the paper’s editorial board.

I thought the Washington Post had come up with the looniest of the “Dr. King As We Didn’t Know Him” editorials two years ago, when it wrote, “Martin Luther King Was a True Conservative.”

That piece praised King for working “to turn back extremism, violence and racial nationalism at the height of the civil rights movement,” and for pushing to keep the fight for change “in the American mainstream.”

It went on to say “the faith [King] defended and helped refine” was a “sort of national creed” based on an “immutable truth of the Declaration of Independ