King Legacy: The Radical King (Series #11) (Paperback)

from azrowan

Received a copy through Library Things Early Reviewer program. A treasured collection of Dr. King's writing and speeches that speaks to the man he was, not the man you're taught to know. Not the kind of book I'll read cover to cover in a sitting, but one I'll be reading for a lifetime.

from Jahoclave

The Radical King Martin Luther King Jr, Cornel West (Ed) Beacon Press January 2015 978-0807012826 For many, their first encounter with Doctor Reverend Martin Luther King Jr is the denuded and sanitized-"official"-elementary school vision of a slain civil rights leader whose grand vision of a raci...

from Melkor81205

I found this book to be a great introduction to MLK. We tend to associate MLK with Selma and the Civil Rights Movement, but gloss over the numerous other issues MLK stood and fought for. Cornell West's collection is a great primer to this towering figure of history. In the collection of various e...

from bks1953

This is an extremely important book -- for those who remember Dr, King, and for those who have come after. Because he has become sanitized, if you will. Every regime does it. Young French syudents aren't taught about de Gaulle's foibles or Napoleon's dictatorial tendencies. English kids aren't ta...

from agnesmack

"King and Mandela are the two towering public figures in the past fifty years in the world. Both have been Santa-Clausified - tamed, domesticated, sanitized, and sterilized - into nonthreatening and smiling old men with toys in their bags and forgiveness in their hearts. yet both were radical and...