Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights icon. King’s civil rights story has a clear beginning — the Montgomery bus boycott — and an apparently triumphant ending — the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King’s dream of economic equality has been harder to achieve. But he also challenged a core part of the American Dream: the false assumption that those who work hard can move upward. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.”For King, economic justice was at the core of his religion and his political activism.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 10:52 UTC