Who On Earth Was Martin Luther King, Jr? The Real Story Behind the Legend of Civil Rights Movement - The One Essential Martin Luther King, Jr #885018

One spring day in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., stood at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and described a dream. It was an address that would define not only a man but an era. And yet, like many icons, the myth has long since outpaced the man.
We know the outline by heart. A Baptist minister from Atlanta who led marches, confronted dogs and fire hoses in Birmingham, and won the Nobel Peace Prize and survived a bullet in the chest in Memphis.
But beyond the grainy black-and-white footage and commemorative postage stamps is a human being who was more than just an icon of justice, but a canny strategist, and at times, a radical thinker, and a deeply conflicted soul.
What we rarely ask is how. How did the son of a preacher raised in the segregated South emerge as the moral voice of a generation?
How did so many Americans — black and white, rich and poor, conservative and liberal — come to regard him not simply as a leader but as the nation’s conscience?