TBMC2000

This is a list of texts (online print and audio/visual) from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s own words and those of scholars and journalists showing that King was much more than cherry-picked quotes from his "I Have a Dream" speech or a sanitized version of the man often misrepresented today. These texts show King to be a radical whose thoughts on class, labor, social unrest, capitalism, reparations, and militarism have been whitewashed since his death and his legacy co-opted for political and cor

After years of repeatedly correcting the same cosmetic issues in formal writing assignments over and over, I compiled a checklist for my classes. Students then know that if they're unable to check off all of the items on this list before submitting written work, they don't have A work.