There is widespread consensus about the impact of Martin Luther King Jr. on the lives of black Americans — more than four in five Americans think he improved their lives, according to a new CBS News poll released Wednesday. Eighty-five percent of Americans think he made things better for blacks, including 86 percent of whites and 89 percent of blacks. Just seven percent of Americans think he made no difference, and one percent thinks he made things worse for blacks in this country. [cont.]
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