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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
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Journal of African American Studies, 2019
This article examines the role that the modern Civil Rights and Black Power Movements played in shaping Puerto Rican organizing in the U.S., namely the evolution of the Young Lords of Chicago and the creation of the "Original" Rainbow Coalition. Keywords Young Lords Organization. "Original" Rainbow Coalition. Puerto Rican. Black Power. Chicago and Urban Removal The emergence of the Young Lords as a grassroots political organization came on the heels of growing national dissent and the development of other community-oriented and New Left organizations across the United States during the late 1960s. Amid a climate of vocal condemnation of conditions of poverty, racial discrimination, and gender bias, as well as opposition to the War in Vietnam and its accompanying draft, youth groups formed in inner cities and on college campuses. Among them were the Black Panther Party (BPP), Young Lords Organization (YLO), and the Brown Berets, all of which organized in communities of color.
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The SS Ben Hecht, by Stephen Silver
(Happy Martin Luther King Day, and also, happy 14th birthday to my son Noah, who I’m proud shares a birthday with Dr. King. Please enjoy this free post.)
In a fact that’s mind-boggling, Selma, Ava DuVernay’s 2014 film about the 1965 Selma March, was somehow the first feature film made by a Hollywood studio in which Dr. Martin Luther King was the protagonist. There were documentaries, and TV movies, and films in which Dr. King was one of the characters, somehow Selma was the first to feature King as the main character, 46 years after his death.
And in that film, DuVernay did not tell a decades-spanning story about King’s entire life, but rather focused on a brief period in 1964 and 1965, starting with King receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, and then planning and carrying out the three attempts at Selma-to-Montgomery marches in the spring of 1965.
Also covered by the film — and its most controversial element — was King’s relationship with President Lyndon Johnson. DuVernay’s film portrays Johnson as, at times, conspiring with Gov. George Wallace against King’s plans, although he ultimately did pass and sign the Voting Rights Act later in 1965.
What I always appreciated most about Selma was that it shows King in a sp