Defanged
Eric Foner: Deifying King, 5 October 2023
King: The Life of Martin Luther King
by Jonathan Eig.
Simon & Schuster, 669 pp., £25, May,978 1 4711 8100 9 Show More
by Jonathan Eig.
Simon & Schuster, 669 pp., £25, May,
“... which made King a national figure; the confrontation in the streets of Birmingham between young Black demonstrators and ‘Bull’ Connor’s dogs and fire hoses; and the march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery. Eig’s admiration for King is obvious, but he is not reluctant to point out failures, such as the Chicago Freedom Movement and the Poor ... ”