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"The history books may write it Reverend King was born in Atlanta, and
then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in
the struggle here, and now he is moving to Atlanta for bigger
responsibilities." -- Member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, November
1959 Preacher -- this simple term describes the twenty-five-year-old
Ph.D. in theology who arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, to become the
pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1954. His name was Martin
Luther King Jr., but where did this young minister come from? What did
he believe, and what role would he play in the growing activism of the
civil rights movement of the 1950s? In Becoming King: Martin Luther
King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader, author Troy Jackson
chronicles King's emergence and effectiveness as a civil rights leader
by examining his relationship with the people of Montgomery, Alabama.
Using the sharp lens of Montgomery's struggle for racial equality to
investigate King's burgeoning leadership, Jackson explores King's
ability to connect with the educated and the unlettered, professionals
and the working class.

Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr.
and the Making of a National Leader
by Troy Jackson, Clayborne Carson (Introductio
Pages: 622
Format: EPUB
Language:EN
(ISBN13: 9780813125206)