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Stewart Burns is the author of To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Sacred Mission to Save America, which will be published by HarperSanFrancisco in January 2004, coinciding with the 75th anniversary of King’s birth. He was an editor of the King papers at Stanford University and currently teaches at the College of the Redwoods in northern California.

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‘America, You Must Be Born Again’

By Stewart Burns

Click to view entire MLk tribute image The following article appears in the January issue of Sojourners Magazine. Martin Luther King Jr. made his first public statements against the Vietnam War in the summer of 1965. But harsh attacks from the White House and the press, coupled with lack of support from most of the…

Click to view entire MLk tribute image The following article appears in the January issue of Sojourners Magazine. Martin Luther King Jr. made his first public…

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