Volume 47, Number 6 · April 13, 2000
The Man Who Was King
By David J. Garrow
I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Michael Eric Dyson
Free Press, 404 pp., $25.00
On Thursday evening, April 4, 1968, nine-year-old Michael Eric Dyson, while watching television at home in Detroit, heard the name Martin Lu-ther King Jr. for the first time. The TV reported that King had been shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee, but it was less the news of King's assassination than the broadcast of excerpts from King's final speech of the night before—his 'Mountaintop' address—that captivated the young Dyson. 'As I listened to his last speech, I was immediately converted beyond the realm of will into a passionate identification with this soldier of love.'[1]
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