Social Justice Scholarship
Social Justice
Here are some of the many articles and presentations by Martin on the subject of civil rights and social justice – the focus of his forthcoming book.
Audrey Nell Edwards: pioneer for racial justice
February 1, 2021
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/01/audrey-nell-edward-st-augustine-segregation-mlk/


“The Civil Rights Movement: The Defining American Story”
(presentation at LBJ Presidential Library, April 9, 2014)
Martin made a presentation at the Educator Workshop at the Civil Rights Summit in Austin, Texas. The Civil Rights Summit was probably the largest civil rights conference in our nation’s history with presentations by Presidents Barack Obama, three former Presidents (Carter, Clinton, and George W. Bush) as well as a host of civil rights luminaries (Andrew Young, John Lewis, etc.).
He served as the lone moderator for the ensuing hour-plus conversation between civil rights icons Julian Bond and Bernice King.

Glenn Olds: maverick college president faces FBI pressure to rescind invitation to MLK
June 11, 2014
Note: a 2016 Los Angeles Times story indicated that this piece, as well as “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” were the two required readings for new FBI agents under former FBI Director James Comey, to guard against excesses like J. Edgar Hoover’s surveillance of Martin Luther King (which Comey called “shameful”): https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-fbi-mlk-history-lesson-20160814-snap-story.html


Marshall Bloom: comet of the counterculture
May 26, 2016
https://www.gazettenet.com/Southern-exposure-Schooled-in-American-prejudice-2423921



Dan Smith: one generation removed from slavery
June 19, 2020


“Ever So Close to Silence” (presentation at New England Historical Association, April 26. 2014)
Martin delivered the keynote address at a conference with over 100 historians representing schools such as Harvard, Cornell, Brown, Williams, etc.: http://www.newenglandhistorians.org/conferences/past-conferences/spr14-conf/

Bilqis Abdul-Qaadir: record-setting basketball player who wears a hijab on the court
February 8, 2009
http://archive.boston.com/sports/schools/basketball/articles/2009/02/08/covered_in_glory/


Team IMPACT: kids with life-threatening illnesses join college sports teams
March 25, 2013
https://www.espn.com/boston/story/_/id/9094798/team-impact-unites-sick-kids-college-athletes


Tom Waddell: LGBTQ pioneer
August 3, 2014
https://www.espn.com/boston/story/_/id/11305954/tom-waddell-amazing-man-gay-games


Rashaun Freeman: “I have a severe, severe, severe learning disability”
The Boston Globe, March 8, 2007


Justine Siegal, Christina-Taylor Green: pioneers in girls’ baseball
September 7, 2011
https://www.espn.com/boston/story/_/id/6941003/the-9-11-legacy-little-league-girl


Gina Gilday: college softball catcher born without legs
April 30, 2008
http://archive.boston.com/news/education/k_12/articles/2008/04/30/inspiration_behind_home_plate/


Don Barksdale: African-American pioneer in the NBA
September 6, 2012
https://www.espn.com/boston/story/_/id/8345148/former-celtic-nba-pioneer-don-barksdale-hall-famer


John Southworth: college cross country runner with Down Syndrome
October 27, 2011


Larry Hasenfus: 58-year-old knuckleball pitcher with a learning disability
April 13, 2010
