Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Militant Nonviolence

by James A. Colaiaco

In this exemplary work of scholarly synthesis the author traces the course of events from the emergence of Martin Luther King, Jr. as a national black spokesman during the Montgomery bus boycott to his radical critique of American society and foreign policy during the last years of his life. He also provides the first in-depth analysis of King's famous Letter from Birmingham Jail - a manifesto of the American civil rights movement and an eloquent defence of non-violent protest.

250 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 1988

About the author

James A. Colaiaco received his Ph.D. in intellectual history from Columbia, and has for the past twenty-five years taught Great Books at New York University in the General Studies Program at NYU. Colaiaco is author of "Socrates against Athens: Philosophy on Trail," "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Militant Nonviolence," and "James Fitzjames Stephen and the Crisis of Victorian Thought,