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This is how MLK was depicted in 1967 to scare white Americans, in case there’s any confusion about the strategy: <a href="/tags/blm/" rel="tag">#BLM</a> <a href="/tags/blacklivesmatter/" rel="tag">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="/tags/mlk/" rel="tag">#MLK</a> <a href="/tags/protest/" rel="tag">#Protest</a>

'I Plan To Lead Another Non-Violent March Tomorrow'

1967 newspaper cartoon with a reporter getting a statement from Martin Luther King with the city street around them littered with debris, wrecked cars, bodies, and torn apart buildings that are on fire and smoking

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I remember the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., of course. I was a senior in high school when it happened. A senior in a small (some 25,000) but very wealthy oil town in south Arkansas, in a deep-South part of the state near the Louisiana border…. My father was a Louisianan whose parents moved to south Arkansas during the oil boom to find good-paying jobs.<a href="/tags/mlk/" rel="tag">#MLK</a> <a href="/tags/martinlutherking/" rel="tag">#MartinLutherKing</a> <a href="/tags/whitesupremacy/" rel="tag">#WhiteSupremacy</a> <a href="/tags/whitechristiannationalism/" rel="tag">#WhiteChristianNationalism</a> <a href="/tags/trump/" rel="tag">#Trump</a> <a href="/tags/ice/" rel="tag">#ICE</a> <a href="/tags/minneapolis/" rel="tag">#Minneapolis</a> /1

An AP photo of Dr. King waving to crowds in DC following his I Have a Dream speech; the photo is in the common domain

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