By Rayna Reid Rayford ·Updated January 15, 2024
Today is the official holiday celebrating civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. More than 50 years after his assassination, King is almost universally revered and counted among the likes of Abraham Lincoln and John F. Kennedy. But this attitude is a somewhat recent development.
During the 1960s, “Gallup measured the public’s perception of King in a different fashion…using a ‘scalometer’ that asked the
