The Chronicle of Higher Education, Innovations Blog, August 17, 2010 by Richard Kahlenberg
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Beck-vs-Sharpton-on-MLK/26275/
Edley argues that as a matter of historical record, “King spoke approvingly of race-conscious affirmative action,” and cites a passage from King’s 1964 book, Why We Can’t Wait, in which King says: “It is impossible to create a formula for the future which does not take into account that our society has been doing something special against the Negro for hundreds of years.”