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What is Man?

United States of America · Politics / Civil Rights. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1959

Martin Luther King1959

Politics / Civil Rights

Writes "The Measure of A Man", from which the piece "What is Man?", an attempt to sketch the optimal political, social, and economic structure of society, is derived

Names involved

Martin Luther King

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