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MLK Disrupted for Justice
Black Agenda Radio with Nellie Bailey and Glen Ford
08 Oct 2018
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Opponents of Black Lives Matter misuse civil rights history to claim that today’s activists are not behaving like Dr. Martin Luther King, said political scientist Jeanne Theoharis, author of A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History. “The movements that Dr. King was a part of were deeply disruptive,” said Dr. Theoharis, “and Dr. King was heavily policed and surveilled, with the Kennedy’s agreement.”

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