New Action Alert on the History Channel’s MLK Documentary

By Ian Jobling • 4/8/08

This week’s action alert asks readers to protest the biased portrayal of the “civil rights” movement in the History Channel’s documentary King. The documentary predictably reduced the complexities of the civil rights movement into a simple-minded fairy tale in which Martin Luther King represented “love” and the segregationists “hate.” Even though many segregationists were respected scholars who made reasoned arguments against racial integration, the only opponents of King that we saw in the documentary were Klan members, neo-Nazis, angry mobs, and ranting public officials.

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