Today, in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, we're featuring an excerpt from Living The Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Daniel T. Fleming. "In the first book-length study of its kind, Daniel Fleming has added significantly to our understanding of the King holiday and debates around it." Renee Romano, author of Racial Reckoning: Prosecuting America’s Civil Rights Murders The sanitization of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination began the night he died, on April 4, 1968. Earlier, King stood in the cool evening air in Memphis, freshly shaven, bantering with...