MLK: From Activist to Icon (from "BlackStory")

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How did Dr Martin Luther King Jr go from being the enemy of white America to an icon, almost universally admired today? In an extract from our BackStory Show The Real Martin Luther-King Brian speaks to scholars Jason Sokol, Jeanne Theoharis, Thomas Jackson and Clayborne Carson about King the Icon, and asks if we have forgotten just how radical Martin Luther King was.

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