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This Day in History: October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. sentenced for civil rights protest

On October 25, 1960, Martin Luther King Jr. was sentenced in Decatur, Georgia for protesting segregation at a department store lunch counter.

An argument for how to tell the story of the civil rights era

In “Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope,” Brandon M. Terry says the familiar narrative modes of the era have warped our collective memory ...