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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Michael Eric Dyson

Cultural critic reclaiming a fuller, more conflicted Martin Luther King Jr. from pious reduction.

Why this matters

Dyson resists misreading King as comfort—authority that still demands structural change.

Focus in observatory

Works

book

I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.

Dyson, Michael Eric. *I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.* New York: Free Press, 2000.

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