When your average American thinks of Martin Luther King Jr., they think of a civil rights hero, an inspiring speaker, and a moral leader. These are certainly the foremost aspects of him but it is also the Cliff's Notes version of him, a sanitized picture that ignores other aspects of his life that made him a far more divisive figure in his day than we r…
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