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Citizen King. Prod. by Orlando Bagwell. ROJA Productions, 2004. 120 mins. ( PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; < shop@pbs.org >; < http://shop.pbs.org/education/ > [Sept. 13, 2004])

Despite recent scholarship that features community histories of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr. remains an iconic figure. King was the first to admit that he did not start the movement; rather, the movement found him in 1955 as a young preacher newly arrived in Montgomery, Alabama. Although scholars have decentered the focus of the black freedom struggle away from King and other national leaders, the Atlanta minister still stands as the first among equals. Even the revelations about womanizing and plagiarism that surfaced after his death have not tarnished his reputation in any lasting manner. . . .

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