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    StoryCorps
    Georgia Rep. John Lewis near the statue of Martin Luther King Jr. in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. At StoryCorps in 2018, Lewis talked about meeting King in Montgomery, Ala., at 18.
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    Rep. John Lewis' Fight For Civil Rights Began With A Letter To Martin Luther King Jr.

    Jan 17, 2020
    As a teenager growing up in Alabama, Lewis wrote a letter to Martin Luther King Jr. during a budding civil rights movement. In a letter back, King invited the 18-year-old to join the cause.
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    Politics
    President John F. Kennedy and members of the Civil Rights Commission pose during a White House conference in Washington in 1961. Wofford is seated to Kennedy's left.
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    Harris Wofford, Former Senator, Civil Rights Activist, Dies At 92

    Jan 22, 2019
    In a long public career, Wofford played a key role in JFK's election, marched alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and led AmeriCorps.
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    The Two-Way
    Then-President Barack Obama helps paint a mural of Martin Luther King Jr. in 2017.
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    Barack Obama And John Lewis Remember The Work Of Martin Luther King Jr.

    Apr 04, 2018
    "Being on the right side of history isn't always popular. And it isn't always easy," said the former president.
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    National
    Activists gather outside the National Civil Rights Museum following the annual Martin Luther King Day march on January 16, 2017 in Memphis, Tennessee.
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    Memphis: How Do You Remember Martin Luther King Jr.?

    Mar 27, 2018
    NPR's Morning Edition is traveling to Memphis, Tenn., to report on the years since MLK's death. We want to hear from Memphis families to learn how things have changed — or not changed.
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    The Two-Way
    President Trump spent the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday at his Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla. Previous presidents have marked the holiday doing volunteer work.
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    Trump Advocates For Public Service On MLK Day, But Spends It At Mar-A-Lago Resort

    Jan 15, 2018
    Past presidents have honored the civil rights leader's birthday by helping out at libraries or homeless shelters but Preisdent Trump chose to spend the day at his Florida resort.
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    Around the Nation
    A statue depicting Confederate Gen. and former Georgia Gov. John Brown Gordon on horseback outside the Georgia Statehouse in Atlanta earlier this month. Gordon was also reputed to be a leader of the Ku Klux Klan.
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    Martin Luther King Jr. Statue To Join Confederates At Georgia's Capitol

    Aug 28, 2017
    King is the first African-American to be memorialized on the state Capitol grounds, where monuments to Confederate generals and segregationists stand.
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    Code Switch
    Kenyatta Forbes, the creator of "Trading Races."
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    A New Card Game Asks, 'Who's Blacker?'

    Mar 16, 2017
    What does it mean to be black? What does it mean to be blacker?
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    Politics
    Civil rights leader and Rep. John Lewis, D-Ga., delivers remarks in front of a freedom bell during the "Let Freedom Ring" commemoration event in 2013.
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    Trump Attacks Civil Rights Hero Lewis As 'All Talk' After He Questions His Legitimacy

    Jan 14, 2017
    The Georgia Democratic congressman said in an interview Friday he didn't view Trump as a "legitimate president" amid reports that Russian cyberattacks had intended to influence the elections.
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    The Two-Way
    In June 2013, Tuskegee Airman Dabney Montgomery waves to the crowd as he is introduced before the start of a baseball game in New York.
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    Tuskegee Airman, Martin Luther King Jr. Bodyguard Dies at 93

    Sep 05, 2016
    Dabney Montgomery served as a ground crewman with the Tuskegee Airman in Italy in World War II. He joined the civil rights movement when he came home, and protected King during the march from Selma.
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    The Two-Way
    A judge on Monday approved a settlement of a legal dispute among the  children of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured in 2006, from left to right: Dexter Scott King, Bernice King, Martin Luther King III.). The dispute was over selling th
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    Legal Dispute Ends Over Martin Luther King Jr.'s Nobel Medal And Bible

    Aug 15, 2016
    A judge's order ends a disagreement over two of the civil rights leader's treasured possessions. King's sons Martin III and Dexter Scott King wanted to sell them. Daughter Bernice King was opposed.
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    NPR Ed
    After the speech, the whole class sings three Civil-Rights-inspired songs together, including "We Shall Overcome."
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    Fifth Graders Revisit King's 'Dream' Speech At The Lincoln Memorial

    Jan 18, 2016
    Students from Watkins Elementary School in Washington, D.C., gathered to honor the civil rights leader.
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    Education
    Semai Kebede shows off a photo of Dr. King he's keeping in his cubby. Barnhardt, who grew up in the segregated South, teaches her class about King's life and legacy, a history she's experienced firsthand.
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    What Does Martin Luther King Jr.'s Legacy Look Like To A 5-Year-Old?

    Jan 19, 2015
    Teachers all over the country are finding ways to talk about the legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. In one Washington, D.C., classroom, the lessons about race come alive.
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