Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates Book

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