Spike Lee's Malcolm X offers something of a greater perspective. A movie can't take the place of historical studies, but for many young people movies are often an entry into history.

Beyond digestability even, I think the centrality of Dr. King in the popular conception of the civil rights movement(s), and even among historians, suggests our unhealthy tendency to view history through "great man" frameworks. Great men may make for more captivating stories, but they seldom make for more informative ones.

Your point about the civil rights movement turning towards more local and economic struggles is valuable. Expanding on that, I see the post-1968 civil rights movement fracturing not so much into separatist/establishmentarian camps as into many parallel movements -- for gay rights, women's rights, etc. -- none of them having national leaders with the stature of King, but all engaging in struggle at the local, regional and national levels based on the same fundamental moral rationale -- that we are created equal and equally entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. We must remember that the movement in its heyday was a multiracial one for equality and human dignity, and that its success in advancing recognition of African-Americans as full citizens and human beings dynamited not just segregation but the entire dam of privilege in America.

During the long lead up to the Civil Rights Movement we associate with King -- it was fully understood it had to be a national movement, given that the goals were things only Federal Courts and then Congress could do. It was only the Supreme Court that could undo Plessy v. Fergeson, with Brown v. Board. It was only Congress that could incorporate matters such as public accomodations into Interstate Commerce Law, and ultimately it was Congress that had to do Voter Rights -- essentially enforcement of the 14th and 15th Amendments. By 1965 the National Movement had such accomplishments in hand -- there clearly needed to be a residual National Movement to follow up, respond to efforts to undo gains, but after the mid 60's, real change actually was more a matter of state and local issues, movements and leadership. Electing Blacks to City Councils, to School Boards, and then taking up particular issues was not really the business of a National Movement...nor was the King National Movement Style particularly useful to these more local movements.

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