Almost four years after his “I Have a Dream” speech, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived at a tent-in demonstration in ...

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But since Barack Obama’s first term as president, protests staged by left-of-center groups have borne less and less resemblance to those led and inspired by Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s.