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,
“... had no dearth of talented, strong-willed women activists, including the grassroots organiser Ella Baker and Jo Ann Robinson, a Montgomery college professor and a key organiser of the bus boycott. But its top echelons were almost entirely male. Every speaker at the 1963 March on Washington was a man. In 1957, Black ministers formed the Southern Christian ... ”