Martin Luther King: The Impact on American Culture Martin Luther King (MLK); a name that ineffaceably elicits the inseparable feelings of unadulterated, wider and altruistic sense of patriotism and belief in the civil rights movements. It is this, coupled with his potent and articulate oration that won him a place within the hearts of millions of Americans, at least enough to warrant the successful establishment of a national holiday, on his birthday. Evidently, a retrospect of the civil rights movements would be insufficient without a reference to the liturgical MLK, at least in the view of most Americans. This implication of MLK as the linchpin of the civil rights movements is what evokes often facetious, and to some point antipathetic, responses from critiques and scholars equally, often disgruntled by the ignorance and misunderstanding of the general public about matters that were, in their opinions and based on evidences they have collected, closest to his heart. For example the fact that he specifically …show more content…
Giving credit to Harding (1985) inferring, he notes the reliability and accuracy derived from using King’s autobiographical statements in gleaning not only the specific activities and interests that he divulged in but also to reveal his human nature and its limitations and insecurities just like any other individual. To this effect, he specifically quotes journalist Ted Poston’s remark that MLK having reached his peak at 27 would have had a daunting task ahead of him additionally quoting King’s own memoire admitting the fear of being expected to “pull rabbits out of a hat” for the rest of his life (Carson,