What MLK actually did

I ran across this Kos-hosted essay a while back, and parts of it stuck in my head, but when it surfaced on Facebook again I was surprised (as usual) at the amount of detail I'd forgotten. It's worth reading. MLK's legacy is that he ended two centuries of racial terror in the South. His political legacy, or rather the legislation enacted as a result of his work, is great, but it was essentially white people acknowledging the new reality that he introduced and that black people in the South made real. And that insight is a fantastic thing.