by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Aug 28, 2013 | Civil Rights History
Tonight I will participate in a Twitter chat with some of the best scholars at Duke on the topic of the March on Washington and the commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary. But rather than try to answer the somewhat tired question of whether Dr. Martin Luther King... by Dr. Gordon Mantler | Aug 14, 2013 | Civil Rights History
John Lewis seems to be everywhere these days. The 73-year-old freedom struggle leader-turned-congressman from Georgia, in many ways, has been the civil rights conscience of Congress for a while now. But he has become particularly visible since the Supreme Court struck...