Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates

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Overview

Combining the latest scholarship with John Kirk's informed commentary, this sourcebook throws a powerful light on the civil rights movement and its most influential leader. Debates that until now have been carried out across a range of books and journals are here brought together for the first time in a clear, helpful volume which introduces readers to key topics, debates and scholars in the field. Essential reading for all those with an interest in the man and the movement.
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Overview

Combining the latest scholarship with John Kirk's informed commentary, this sourcebook throws a powerful light on the civil rights movement and its most influential leader. Debates that until now have been carried out across a range of books and journals are here brought together for the first time in a clear, helpful volume which introduces readers to key topics, debates and scholars in the field. Essential reading for all those with an interest in the man and the movement.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781403996541
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Publication date: 10/2/2007
  • Pages: 224
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.00 (h) x 0.60 (d)

Meet the Author

John A. Kirk is Professor of US History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. He is author of Martin Luther King Jr (2005) and Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970 (2002), which won the J. G. Ragsdale Book Award.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgements     X
Introduction     1
Leadership: National and Local Perspectives     14
Introduction     14
On the Role of Martin Luther King   August Meier     18
Martin Luther King, Jr: Charismatic Leadership in a Mass Struggle   Clayborne Carson     27
Influences: African American Church, White Academy     35
Introduction     35
The Intellectual Development of Martin Luther King, Jr: Influences and Commentaries   David J. Garrow     39
Martin Luther King, Jr: Black Theology - Black Church   James H. Cone     53
Authorship: Plagiarism, Ghost-Writing and Voice-Merging     66
Introduction     66
There is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr   Lewis V. Baldwin     69
Martin Luther King, Jr and the Black Folk Pulpit   Keith D. Miller     71
The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Word that Moved America   Richard Lischer     75
Tactics: Non-violence, Violence and Armed Self-defence     82
The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement   Lance Hill     86
Martin Luther King, Jr and the Paradox of Nonviolent Direct Action   James A. Colaiaco     95
Comparisons: Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X     110
Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare?   James H. Cone     116
Reflecting Black: African-American Cultural Criticism   Michael Eric Dyson     130
Relationships: Women and Gender, Sex and Sexuality     142
African-American Women in the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-65: Gender, Leadership, and Micromobilization   Belinda Robnett     149
'I May Not Get There with You': The True Martin Luther King, Jr   Michael Eric Dyson     157
Radicalism: Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Years, 1965-8     173
From Reformer to Revolutionary   David J. Garrow     176
Was Martin Luther King a Marxist?   Adam Fairclough     183
Assassination: Conspiracy or Lone Gunman?     195
An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King   William F. Pepper     199
Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr   Gerald L. Posner     203
A Final Analysis: Author's Note Written for This Edition   Gerald L. Posner     205
'Racial Matters': The FBI's Secret File on Black Anerica, 1960-1972   Kenneth O'Reilly     207
Commemoration: The King Holiday and Street Naming     217
O Freedom! Afro-American Emancipation Celebrations   William H. Wiggins, Jr     221
Street Names and the Scaling of Memory: The Politics of Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr within the African American Community   Derek H. Alderman     232
Bibliography     245
Index     261

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