MLK's Economic Agenda

Footnotes with Jemar Tisby

Not only have we reduced Martin Luther King's vision to a single line from his "I Have a Dream" speech, we have also forgotten or ignored his vision for economic equity. In this episode I talk about King's economic agenda--one that he had from the beginning of his work as a pastor and moral philosopher all the way back in the 1950s and not just in the last few years of his life. We also get into how the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday came to be and a 15 year saga to get to sign the bill into law. Some resources you'll want to check out to learn more: To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice Article- Jobs Are Harder to Create Than Voting Rolls Listen to "Letter from Birmingham Jail" on Pass The Mic Nonviolence 365- The King Center Freedmen's Bureau Transcription Project- Smithsonian Institute Be sure to support projects like this one by subscribing to JemarTisby.Substack.com and this Footnotes podcast! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices