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What being American meant to Martin Luther King
This was the week the nation observed the birthday and celebrated the achievements of Martin Luther King. But, despite what he accomplished, King himself felt unfulfilled up to the time he was murdered.
By Warren Olney • • 49m ListenKing was partly responsible for the end of legal segregation and the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s. But that also led to his assassination, and King himself knew all too well that his work had yet not been completed. That’s according to David Garrow, author of a Pulitzer-Prize winning biography, “Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.” He sat down with Warren as part of “What it Means to Be American,” a project of Zócalo Public Square and the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History."
