Episode 160: WAKING FROM THE DREAM: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Shadow of Martin Luther King, Jr.
In WAKING FROM THE DREAM, David L. Chappell provides a sweeping history of the fight to keep the civil rights movement alive following Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. Chappell reveals that, far from coming to an abrupt end with King's death, the civil rights movement continued to work to realize King's vision of an equal society. I interviewed Chappell in 2014, the year the book was published.
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