MLK Jr. Summary

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Haskins’ biography of MLK Jr. adds tremendous value to the understanding of ideology and personal rights and freedoms. The ideology of an entire minority at the time was projected through King and his words. His ideology was shaped by his upbringing and the life he wanted to live. “He had worked hard to get where he was, and he was proud of what he had achieved. He believed he was as good as any other man, black or white” and “Martin Jr. could not have a better example of dignity than his father” are examples of how an ideology can be created and influenced. As you read through you begin to understand where his ideology began and why he was so strongly supported. This understanding is not often easy to grasp through a textbook’s examples or …show more content…
The progress for change achieved by King was strictly for the blacks as a race which means this book is strictly speaking of racial equality. This leaves out equal civil rights for gender, disability, and age. Women in the 1960s’s were allowed to vote but were still being discriminated against. They were expected to marry in their early 20s, start a family quickly, and devote their life to homemaking. Disabled peoples at the time did not have access to public transportation, telephones, bathrooms and stores. The elderly in the 1960’s were often discriminated against in the workplace because of their age or unable to find employment because of their age. All three of these issues relate to the book through the social concept of civil rights. This is why the book is limited in teaching the history and understanding of civil rights and the civil rights moments that occurred in the 1960‘s. The second limitation relates to how the major wars shaped King’s ideology. Although King was a supporter of the anti-war movement there was little back story to why he felt this way and the effects it had on his family. If the author added more back story about the Vietnam War it would be much easier to understand how King and his family were effected. This would add another example of how King’s ideology changed over
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