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"Jonathan Eig casts fresh light on the King family's origins as well as MLK's complex relationships with his wife, father, and fellow activists. 'King' reveals a minister wrestling with his own human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government, and a man determined to fight for justice even if it proved to be a fight to the death. As he follows MLK from the classroom to the pulpit to the streets of Birmingham, Selma, and Memphis, Eig dramatically re-creates the journey of a man who recast American race relations and became the nation's only modern-day founding father - as well as its most mourned martyr. Eig gives as an MLK for our times: a deep thinker, a brilliant strategist, and a committed radical who led one of history's greatest movements, and whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime"--Publisher's description.

African American civil rights workers --- Civil rights workers --- King, Martin Luther,