Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.

Clayborne Carson, Coretta King’s, chosen historian for compiling Martin King’s papers, tells the moving story of his youthful witness of King at the March on Washington, his early meet with Stokly Carmichael leading him to become a student of SNCC and eventually the group’s historian in his first book, In Struggle, SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960’s, leading to become Coretta King’s choice to edit her husband’s voluminous papers in Atlanta from his tenured position as professor of history at Stanford, where he co-pioneered a reworking of the introductory Western Humanities, co-authored King’s autobiography, and book collections of his sermons and speeches, working with Coretta’s son Dexter, Mrs. King’s choice to succeed her in managing Dr. King’s enormous literary heritage. As Coretta’s life ends she shares intimate love letters of their early romance and life together, and Claiborne also depicts his own role in creating a play about King’s life performed across the US and world, including China and Palestine. He begins the book gazing at the monumental King memorial statute on the Washington, DC mall the design of which he had an important role. If you have read any,or all, of the other dozens of books on King, this one surpasses them all!