Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights Movement Leadership: National and Local Perspectives Influences: African American Church, White Academy Authorship: Plagiarism, Ghost-Writing, and Voice-Merging Tactics: Nonviolence, Violence, and Armed Self Defence Comparisons: Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X Relationships: Women and Gender, Sex and Sexuality Radicalism: Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Years, 1965-8 Assassination: Conspiracy or Lone Gunman? Commemoration: The King Holiday and Street Naming Bibliography Index.

About 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.