JOHN A. KIRK is Professor of US History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. He is author of Martin Luther King Jr (2005) and Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970 (2002), which won the J. G. Ragsdale Book Award.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights MovementLeadership: National and Local PerspectivesInfluences: African American Church, White AcademyAuthorship: Plagiarism, Ghost-Writing, and Voice-MergingTactics: Nonviolence, Violence, and Armed Self DefenceComparisons: Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm XRelationships: Women and Gender, Sex and SexualityRadicalism: Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Years, 1965-8Assassination: Conspiracy or Lone Gunman?Commemoration: The King Holiday and Street NamingBibliographyIndex.

JOHN A. KIRK is Professor of US History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. He is author of Martin Luther King Jr (2005) and Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970 (2002), which won the J. G. Ragsdale Book Award.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights MovementLeadership: National and Local PerspectivesInfluences: African American Church, White AcademyAuthorship: Plagiarism, Ghost-Writing, and Voice-MergingTactics: Nonviolence, Violence, and Armed Self DefenceComparisons: Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm XRelationships: Women and Gender, Sex and SexualityRadicalism: Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Years, 1965-8Assassination: Conspiracy or Lone Gunman?Commemoration: The King Holiday and Street NamingBibliographyIndex.

JOHN A. KIRK is Professor of US History at Royal Holloway University of London, UK. He is author of Martin Luther King Jr (2005) and Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970 (2002), which won the J. G. Ragsdale Book Award.

• AcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights MovementLeadership: National and Local PerspectivesInfluences: African American Church, White AcademyAuthorship: Plagiarism, Ghost-Writing, and Voice-MergingTactics: Nonviolence, Violence, and Armed Self DefenceComparisons: Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm XRelationships: Women and Gender, Sex and SexualityRadicalism: Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Years, 1965-8Assassination: Conspiracy or Lone Gunman?Commemoration: The King Holiday and Street NamingBibliographyIndex.