Steffan halperin biography of martin luther king
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Barbara Franke
aDepartment of Human Genetics, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
bDepartment of Psychiatry, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Giorgia Michelini
cKing's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, London, UK
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Philip Asherson
cKing's College London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre, London, UK
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Tobias Banaschewski
dDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, huvud Institute of Mental Health, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Un
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Bert B. Lockwood
Professor Lockwood is the Distinguished Service Professor and Director of the renowned Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, the first endowed institute at an American law school devoted to the study of international human rights. He has been involved in international human rights for over 40 years, working with the late Prof. Richard Lillich, at Syracuse and Virginia Law Schools in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s. At the NYU Center for International Studies, he worked with Professor Thomas Franck and Joel Carlson, one of the leading civil rights attorneys in South Africa. He played a prominent role in Diggs. v. Schultz, a lawsuit against the Nixon Administration and Union Carbide for violating the UN mandatory economic sanctions against Southern Rhodesia.
While Associate Dean at American University Law School, he taught their first course on international human rights, and co-founded in 1978 the International Human Rights Law Group (now Global Rights), o
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From Luther H. Hodges to Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964 June 30
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Identifier: 1.1.0.21310
Scope and Contents of the Subseries
The subseries contains correspondence between Martin Luther King, Jr. and various individuals and organizations from 1953 to 1968. There are letters, telegrams, greeting cards, carbon copies, postcards, invitations, and hate mail. The correspondence is primarily professional, often accompanied by enclosures, with few personal letters. Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal employment, education, housing, passive resistance, poverty, religion, riots, voter registration, the Vietnam War and other social issues. There are also requests for speeches, information, visits, assistance, critiques of other writers, autographs, reprints of his work, and other invitations. Some letters praise King’s activities, offer enco