Daron fordham biography of martin luther king

Martin Luther King, Jr., was at a crossroads when he came to Stanford University in April

The civil rights movement was adrift.

Nonviolence was challenged by riots in Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago, and Newark.

Daron fordham biography of martin luther king

Just ten days before he arrived on campus King had spoken out against the Vietnam War, which met with a fierce backlash from the editorial pages of the New York Times, the Washington Post, and even from the NAACP, as Jonathan Eig writes in King: A Life, his magisterial new biography.

At Stanford, though, despite his audience of mostly draft-age undergraduates, King said he did not want to discuss Vietnam.

Delivered without notes before a crowded Memorial Auditorium, his address, which would turn out to be among his most famous, was about inequality.

There are two Americas, King said, one “overflowing with the milk of prosperity and the honey of opportunity.

This America is the habitat of mill