Between 1957 and his assassination on April 4, 1968, at age 39, Martin Luther King Jr. gave 2,500 speeches, wrote sermons and ...
A Life,’ spoke about the civil rights leader in an interview with NPR Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights ...
Eig noted that King Jr.'s father, pastor Martin Luther King Sr., often clashed with his son, throughout his childhood and beyond. King Jr. "always wanted to exceed his father," the author said ...