Category Archives: Martin Luther King

Retro-Post number 5: “Race–and History–Matter” (April 1, 2013)

Posted on September 3, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note: Anyone who has followed this blog for a while is surely aware that one of my constant themes is the significance of race in the history of the United States. Here is an early example of that dictum, from … Continue reading →

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Reflections on Race, Part 1 (Teaching Civil Rights, 15)

Posted on March 2, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  This is another in a series of  posts about a white person who grew up in the South during the Age of Jim Crow and managed to come to terms with the question of race, though usually much later … Continue reading →

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A Post for Dr. Martin Luther King Day, 2022: A Prayer for “Social Justice,” and “Retro-Post” number 2, from January 2018.

Posted on January 7, 2022 by georgelamplugh

[Funny thing about being born in 1944: as it turned out, I grew up with the modern Civil Rights Movement, and, as a result, one of my heroes has been–and remains–The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. And, because of … Continue reading →

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A Post for the Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday, 2021: “A Prayer for our Country”

Posted on January 15, 2021 by georgelamplugh

[Note:  A year ago, I reflected in this space on the play of “light” and “darkness” in the rhetoric of Dr. King, drawing on remarks by the late Georgia Congressman John Lewis and Republican columnist Michael Gerson.  I ended by confessing … Continue reading →

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John Wereat and Georgia, 1775-1799, Part 2 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 33)

Posted on January 1, 2021 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  This is the second, and final, post about John Wereat, who turned up at almost every crucial event in Georgia’s history between the outbreak of the American Revolution and his death in 1799.  Part 1 followed him from his … Continue reading →

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John Wereat and Georgia, 1775-1799, Part 1 (In Pursuit of Dead Georgians, 33)

Posted on December 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  I first met John Wereat in the late 1960s, while researching Georgia politics in the era of the American Revolution.  (By that time, he’d been dead for about 175 years!) I soon found him fascinating, because almost nothing had … Continue reading →

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[Note:  2020 has rapidly become a “Year of Discontent” in the United States.  The coronavirus–and our government’s seeming inability, or unwillingness, to bring it under control–has produced much of the pervasive anger and frustration currently testing the strengths of the … Continue reading →

Posted on August 1, 2020 by georgelamplugh | 5 Comments

The King Assassination, Fifty-Two Years On

Posted on April 4, 2020 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  For those of us of a certain age, the year 1968 was a terrible year; pick your horror, and you could find it there.  The Tet Offensive; the decline of public support in the United States for what was … Continue reading →

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A Post for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, 2019

Posted on January 17, 2019 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  Last year at this time, I published a post for the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday that focused on my contribution to an assembly commemorating King’s career and significance given at my school on January 16, 1987.  This post … Continue reading →

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The Second Reconstruction: The Modern Civil Rights Movement, 1940s-1968, Part 2 (Teaching Civil Rights, 12)

Posted on January 2, 2019 by georgelamplugh

[NOTE:  This is the concluding post in my treatment of the Modern American Civil Rights Movement from World War II through the assassination of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1968.  For part 1, go here.  A list … Continue reading →

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