...educators at leading African American schools. His aunt was the opera singer Mattiwilda Dobbs Shocked by the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy in 1968, he announced his candidacy for the United States Senate seat occupied by Herman Talmadge. While losing...

...leading hawks; only a small minority of truly radical Jews, and a few liberal non-Zionist Jews, have The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy in 1968 eliminated both the leading proponent of nonviolence (already under sharp and bitter attack by black-power...

...Beach (1972) the characters move to the coast, and Betts moves to contemporary times, showing that the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy in 1968 had roots in the violence of everyday life. Jonathan Yardley, writing for the New York Times Book Review...

...Other disaffected young people "dropped out" of mainstream society in favor of the "counterculture." The assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy in 1968 further stirred the political alienation of the young. At the Democratic convention of that year, violence...

...partly in reaction against the Vietnam war, the 1960s had been a decade of social upheaval (marked by the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy in 1968). Contrasting emphases had been evident in the outreach into space (with the first human landing on the...

...following years between the Johnson administration and members of Congress. The logjam broke following the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert Kennedy in 1968. These murders increased support for gun control in Congress and also served to make the often silent...