David J. Garrow Morrow, 1986 800 pp. $19.95
Big as this book is, it is not the complete chronicle of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life (1929-68). Garrow, a political scientist at the City College of New York, focuses mainly on the years of King's civil rights activism, beginning in the mid-1950s.
One learns that the 26-year-old Baptist minis-ter from Atlanta accepted the burden of leading the Southern black civil rights movement with misgivings. He was propelled to prominence in 1955, when organizers...
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