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Chapter 5 concludes the book, drawing from and expanding on the discussions in each chapter in order to offer a robust and inclusive assessment of the Memorial. In the chapter, I offer specific implications related to the contested “ownership” of King’s memory, its placement in an institutional narrative of progress, and its problematic universalization.
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Walker, J. (2016). Conclusion. In: King Returns to Washington: Explorations of Memory, Rhetoric, and Politics in the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial. Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137589149_5
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