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