A recent TIME magazine reflecting on the Martin Luther King, Jr.’s last campaigns included the observations of James S. Sherman Professor of Government Philip Klinkner. “There’s a wave of riots in a lot of northern cities including Washington, D.C., [after his death] and the Fair Housing Act is seen as a possible way of preventing more,” said Klinkner, author of . “It only passes because of these incredibly violent riots after the death of this apostle of nonviolence, so there’s a lot of irony laden in that.”
The April 2, written by alumna Olivia B. Waxman ’11, continued, “But, Klinker argues, aside from affirmative action in the ’70s, ‘there are no more major legislative victories for the movement.’”
Posted April 12, 2018
