Martin Luther King Lecture, NWACC
Sat. January 26 – noon – zoom link upon requestDr. Matt Evans at mevans8@nwacc.edu for Zoom information Dr. King is celebrated as an icon of civil disobedience and the idea of good protest in American political culture. How does the reality of King’s evolving reflections on the philosophy and strategy of nonviolent direct action compare to the myth that has come to surround it? Alexander Livingston’s lecture examines King’s contemporary legacy for contemporary protest politics from two competing perspectives: its ideological deployment by conservatives and liberals to delimit the boundaries of appropriate protest, and the evolution of King’s own thinking LECTURER: Dr. Alexander […]
