Martin Luther King Jr.

Combining the latest insights from King biographies and movement histories, this book provides an up-to-date analysis of the relationship between the ?man and the movement.?

• Martin Luther king is the most important black American of the twentieth century and defined racial equality in the United States.
• No one book offers such a succinct yet critically engaged analysis of King and his relationship to the rest of the civil rights movement.
• It offers a synthesis and assessment of a much larger body of scholarly and popular literature on King and the civil rights movement.
• Most studies offer straightforward biographies of King or histories of the civil rights movement: this book is distinctive in placing King's leadership within the wider context of the movement