When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

by Hugh Pearson

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When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed African-American surgeon, using a little known and difficult procedure.

Pearson recreates America at the dawn of the civil rights movement, and in so doing probes and examines the living body politic of...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:158322274X

ISBN13:9781583222744

Release Date:January 2002

Publisher:Seven Stories Press

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.70 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

20th Century Africa African-American & Black African-American Studies Asia Ethnic & National History Leaders & Notable People Military Minority Studies

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