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Alveda King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., reflects on his legacy on ‘Fox and Friends Weekend.’
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., who spent his life fighting American injustice, was born Jan. 15, 1929, and his birthday, made a federal holiday late in 1983, is celebrated every year on the third Monday in January.
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Hagiography and the passage of time after his assassination have disappeared the radicality of King’s vision – the civil rights icon attacked the Vietnam War and the unequal American economy at the end of his life.
King had concluded that militarism, like poverty, was stalling the U.S. from living up to its ideals. ....

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