Garry Wills Martin Luther King Jr. Profile - Martin Luther King Is Still on the Case
, we asked King scholar and Georgetown sociologist Michael Eric Dyson to reintroduce what remains one of the greatest—and most lasting—King profiles of all time. Izola Ware Curry, the mentally ill black woman who stabbed Martin Luther King Jr. at a Harlem book signing in 1958, has just died at age 98. King brilliantly transmuted Curry's homicidal urge into a riveting anecdote in a speech delivered in 1968, the night before assassin James Earl Ray blasted him to his heavenly reward. Curry's passing the baton to Ray in the decade-long race to murder King paid bitter and ironic homage to the...
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