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In this interesting and important introduction to the life and thought of Martin Luther King Jr., theologian Rufus Burrow explores King’s life as well as his thinking and activism. Burrow addresses those who see King as only a social activist by showing how his studies, particularly his theological studies, influenced, shaped, and transformed the activist path he pursued during his public life....

King Jr. remembered Daddy King’s telling him as a boy that he would never accept racism and segregation but would fight against them as long as he lived. Although he did not fully understand what his father meant, the boy promised that he would do all he could to help him. King Jr. recalled that he had never seen his father so angry as when a white shoe salesman refused to wait on him in the front of the store. Just like his own parents before him, Daddy King protested against acts of racial injustice
Pages 36–37
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