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King's legacy tied to 'Dream' speech

Fresh from a three-week study abroad trip to Ghana, Stony Brook University professor Floris Barnett Cash said the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy as a civil-rights leader stretches worldwide.

"It is now an international or a global recognition of Dr. King," said Cash, the chairwoman of Stony Brook's Africana Studies department. "In various places there were photographs of Dr. King. We...

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