The Montgomery bus boycott would have happened without King, but King’s oratory helped to ensure that the boycott came one of those exceptional local movements for justice that would send ripples of inspiration to oppressed...

King was a transformed person. Evil was no longer a theory.

While Johns (Martin Luther King’s predecessor as pastor in Montgomery) agreed with Dexter’s general disdain for emotionalism, he was very fond of traditional spirituals, believing they represented a part of their history they ought to...