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How Martin Luther King's Education Influenced His Activism

Mary Dempsey
By Mary Dempsey

Damon Freeman, director of the History and African American Studies program at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), revisits in a post on the UMGC Blog the political philosophy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and underscores how his education influenced his activism and his approach to economic justice, nonviolence and voting rights, which remain as crucial to the country’s well-being today as it was a half century ago.

Read the full blog post HERE.