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The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

By Calvin Trillin — 1964

From 1964: An encounter with Martin Luther King, Jr., during a summer of pressure.

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“Let Freedom Ring Wherever the People’s Rights Are Trampled Upon”: What We Can Learn from Nelson Mandela Today

Nelson Mandela was by nature an optimist, but he was as hard-headed as they come. He did not embrace the consoling view of history that, as Martin Luther King said (in a line often quoted by Barack Obama), “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.

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Richard Stengel
2020
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