Bettmann Archive Despite being a revered leader of the civil rights movement, Dr. MartinLutherKingJr. was actually conflict avoidant, says biographer Jonathan Eig. In an interview published ...
MartinLutherKingJr. didn’t originally set out to become a civil rights activist, according to his biographer. On a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s Book of the Day podcast, Jonathan Eig, author of ...