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,” : Martin Luther King Jr. was a profile in courage. Though universally esteemed now, this was not so much in the 1950s. He took controversial and unpopular positions in the midst of his fame and adulation — even alienating many of his supporters within the civil rights movement and the country as a whole.
He was criticized by liberals and conservatives alike and by the Lyndon B. Johnson administration for venturing into an issue they saw as outside the civil rights movement.
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