Martin Luther King Jr.
Reverend · Nobel Laureate · Prophet · Civil Rights Leader · 1929–1968
The Baptist minister who led the American civil rights movement with moral force and prophetic language.
Explore the life of Dr. King — five chapters
- Auburn Avenue — A minister's son in segregated Atlanta
- 381 Days in Montgomery — A boycott that needed a spokesman
- Birmingham and the March on Washington — Learning from failure, then forcing a law
- Selma, Surveillance and the Cost of Speaking — The vote, the FBI, and Vietnam
- Memphis — The Poor People's Campaign and a sanitation strike
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Debate Dr. King in the Agora
Reading is the start. On Incandio an idea counts as mastered only once you have argued it against the person with the strongest claim on it, in structured rounds marked against published descriptors.
- The Decisive Cause — “Nonviolent direct action was the decisive cause of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.”
- Who Moved Montgomery — “The gains of the 1950s came from organised local action, not from federal law or national leadership.”
Teach what Dr. King discovered
How the Civil Rights Movement Won Change · Gandhi and King: The Power of Non-Violence — ideas Dr. King is tied to on the Living Knowledge Map. On Incandio you prove you understand one by teaching it to Ember, the AI pupil, in Teach the Room.
Begin
- Start a conversation with Dr. King — a dramatised, historically grounded AI portrayal
- Read the Historical Brief
- Explore the life of Dr. King — five chapters
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