The New Statesman
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In 1983 Ronald Reagan approved an annual national holiday that marks King’s birthday on 15 January.
In 1964 Gallup poll the American public viewed King as the fourth most-admired man in the world.
But by 1966 his name had slipped out of the top ten, and 63 per cent of those polled that year viewed him negatively.
Files declassified in 2017 and 2018 showed that King was not a saint but a man who had extramarital affairs.
The March on Washington speech was originally scheduled for October 1963.
It was moved forward to harness momentum of protests earlier in 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama.
King expanded his activism from the South to the North where segregation was a function of law, public policy and discriminatory business practices.
King’s final campaign before his assassination was advocating better conditions for Memphis sanitation workers.
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