Senate subcommittee held televised hearings on the link between comic books and juvenile delinquency, and schools and civic organizations staged bonfire burnings of “lurid” comic books. Even Hassler himself forbade his children from reading them. Still, he saw the medium’s value in reaching a ...
MLK wrote many speeches and also wrote 6 books about the discrimination of African Americans in the United States. What did MLK write his speeches and books about? Many people did not like MLK's speeches or what he stood for. He was attacked and arrested several times, but he did not gi...
King took the movement to the North starting in 1966 when he led a campaign against urban poverty in Chicago. The evolution of his message is evident in his books and speeches. Most historians think King was getting more radical, not conservative, at the end of his life. King concluded tha...
a timeline, articles about Dr. King, and the text of some of his well-known papers. Among those papers are his famous "I Have a Dream" speech, his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, and a letter he wrote while being held in a Birmingham jail. ...
H.B. Crockett, who is retired, put in 53 years as a sanitation worker. Crockett signed on, he says, “because I didn’t want to be pickin’ cotton.” Two weeks into the strike Memphis’ mayor, Henry Loeb, wrote this letter to the Memphis Press-Scimitar telling sanitation workers the ...