New book about Martin Luther King features PC’s Director Sargent Shriver and CD Harris Wofford (Ethiopia)
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election Martin Luther King Jr. faced a harrowing nine days in a dangerous prison in 1960. In his book, GW Alum Paul Kendrick tells how King’s ordeal changed politics as we know it. • A review by John DiConsiglio, January 11, 2022, GWToday In October 1960, a 31-year-old Martin Luther King Jr. not yet the civil rights icon who would inspire a nation, agreed to join a student sit-in at an Atlanta department store. King, who had never yet spent a night in jail, knew he faced a possible arrest. But the reality was even more harrowing. While the students were taken to local jails, King was transferred to a dangerous Georgia state prison where Black inmates endured violence by white guards. Just weeks before the presidential election, King’s ordeal was the ultimate “October . . .
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In the Acknowledgments of Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election…