... King’s legacy not only increasingly became conflated with a - TopicsExpress



          

... King’s legacy not only increasingly became conflated with a simple story of American racial progress, but Hollywood’s most successful films on the civil rights era (with the important exception of Spike Lee’s 1992 Malcolm X)—Mississippi Burning (1988), The Long Walk Home (1989), and most recently The Help (2011)—all told a story of resisting segregation through the more conciliatory experience of interracial friendships or white heroes. time/3645651/how-selma-reclaims-hollywoods-sanitized-versions-of-martin-luther-king-jr/
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 04:24:15 +0000

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