Martin Luther King Jr. on ‘The other America’

By: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Outlets: Minnesota Reformer

Published: June 19, 2026

Words: 2,320

Last Updated: 1 month ago

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Editor’s note: To commemorate Juneteenth, we share excerpts of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at Stanford University in April 1967. We hear in this speech many of the themes that would animate King’s career but are too often forgotten: Economic equality and justice, the historical context of white backlash, and optimism as an ethos. The speech has been edited for length.

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