I May Not Get There with You (Magill’s Literary Annual 2001)
At a glance:
- Author: Michael Eric Dyson
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Biography
- Setting: Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma, Alabama; Memphis, Tennessee; and other locations of King’s great campaigns and triumphs
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, United States or Americans, Racism, Twentieth century, Tennessee, Alabama, Activism
- Locales: Birmingham, AL, Memphis, TN, Alabama, Montgomery, AL
Why must Martin Luther King, Jr., continue to be such a problem? His January holiday, for a time, was not observed in some states. No sooner did Americans observe it than February brought in Black History Month, causing (puzzled) Americans to recollect his achievement again. Meanwhile, his family squeezes all the money it can out of him—even contemplating a King theme park in Atlanta. Nonviolence does not interest many of the nation’s young people, black or white. Colin Powell has more drawing power than Jesse Jackson. The 1995 Million Man March was organized by Louis Farrakhan and...
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