Re-creating the life and turbulent times of the civil rights movement's inspirational leader, the author offers fascinating insights into his subject's magnetic character and explores the complexities of King's relationships with other civil rights leaders, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the FBIUs J. Edgar Hoover.
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Re-creating the life and turbulent times of the civil rights movement's inspirational leader, the author offers fascinating insights into his subject's magnetic character and explores the complexities of King's relationships with other civil rights leaders, the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, and the FBIUs J. Edgar Hoover.
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Marin Luther King And Moral Struggle
In a short space, Marshall Frady has written an informative, inspiring and thoughtful biography of Martin Luther King Jr., of the nature of his achievement, of his America, and of his vision. The book does not engage in hero-worship or myth-making but rather presents Dr. King as a tortured. conflicted, and lonely individual. Frady writes at the close of his introduction (p.10) (itself a wonderful summation of the book and of King's achievement): "And what the full-bodied reality of King should finally tell us, beyond all the awe and celebration of him, is how mysteriously mixed, in what torturously complicated forms, our moral heroes -- our prophets --actually come to us."
The book emphasizes the ways in which King's moral vision and achievement emerged from moral conflict. King spent most of his career walking a difficult path between extremes. At the beginning of his career, he was criticized by the more conservative black establishment which preferred to use the courts rather than demonstrations as a means to promote racial equality. Indeed, Frady tells us, the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955, which catapulted King into national prominence, did not end the segregation of the city's bus system -- a court decision did.
Towards the end of his career, black leaders such as Malcolm X and Stokely Charmichael pressured King to abandon his philosophy of nonviolence. He did not do so. But Frady shows us how King and Malcolm X near the end of their lives each learned something from the other.
King's most difficult moral struggle was with himself. Frady gives us a convincing picture of how King, whose appeal rested upon an ability to convey moral and religious principle, struggled (unsuccessfully) with sexuality. A myriad of affairs followed him and his mission from beginning to end. Frady has insightful things to say about the relationship between King's tortured, complex personal life and his public mission.
Frady also describes how near the end of his career with segregation on the decline in the South, King tried to expand his mission by opposing the war in Vietnam and by his "poor peoples campaign" which King saw as an attack on the materialism, impersonality, and greed that he found pervaded American life. In so expanding his mission, King alienated many of his followers. His lasting achievement does not rest upon these later activities, according to Frady, but rather upon the idealism and moral commitment with which he was able to infuse American life during a few short years.
Frady gives us an eloquent discussion of King's "I have a dream" speech in Washington D.C. Later in his career, King set forth his vision for America by speaking in terms of a "Beloved Community", a phrase adopted from the early 20th Century American philosopher, Josiah Royce. King said (p. 183) "When I talk about power and the need for power, I'm talking in terms of the need for power to bring about ... the creation of the Beloved Community." Our nation is still trying to recover something of King's idealism and of the best of his vision.
This book encourages us to think about and to formulate for ourselves the vision of America as a "Beloved Community" by reflecting on the life and achievement of a complex man.
