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Martin Luther King Jr. and crossing boundaries
MLKJr.'s words about Vietnam apply to Iraq and the environment |
Jon Rynn |
04 Apr 2008 |
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| Forty years ago, writes the Washington Post's E.J. Dionne, liberalism's moments seemed to have passed: From the death of John F. Kennedy in November 1963 until the congressional elections of November 1966, liberals were triumphant, and what they did changed the world. Civil rights and voting rights, Medicare and Medicaid, clean air and clean water legislation, Head Start, the Job Corps, and federal aid to schools had their roots in the liberal wave that began to ebb when ... |
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| Topics: environmental movement, grassroots activism, legislation, politics (all these topics) |
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