Direct Action Must Be Remembered As Part of Dr. King’s Legacy

[D]irect action, as Dr. King understood it and practiced it, meant bringing a social institution or the society itself locally to a halt, to make the system scream, just like its victims screamed, to bring contradictions to a head, so that everyone could see what the real problem was, that is, to confront authority. And that's not understood in terms of what King's legacy is.The post Direct Action Must Be Remembered As Part of Dr. King’s Legacy appeared first on BSNEWS.

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