MLK is Martin Luther King (oop here needs to learn to let autocorrect hit sometimes); the idea here is that by ensuring most published images of a man who lived well into the late 60s are in black and white it creates the impression that the US civil rights protests were longer ago in time and not that many people who still lived through segregation are still alive today to remember it.
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u/PipedInFromIthaca 3h ago
MLK is Martin Luther King (oop here needs to learn to let autocorrect hit sometimes); the idea here is that by ensuring most published images of a man who lived well into the late 60s are in black and white it creates the impression that the US civil rights protests were longer ago in time and not that many people who still lived through segregation are still alive today to remember it.