Correspondent
YOUNGSTOWN Throughout the 1960s, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. recognized how fluid, evolutionary and transformational the civil rights movement was and, many people contend, had the wisdom to adopt and shift his strategies with it for achieving a more just society.
For example, it was one thing for black people to gain the right to sit at what had been whites-only lunch counters, but another for them to have greater economic power to afford what was being served.
The movement continues to evolve today to include tackling disparities in access to health care and education, as well as unequal treatment by police, many say.