Peniel E. Joseph on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
About the Event:
Popular accounts of the 1960s-era civil rights movement are often reduced to the story of two extraordinary visionaries: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. In his book The Sword and the Shield Peniel E. Joseph argues that by focusing on their differing doctrines of self-defense versus nonviolence, we’ve been blind to the scope of their shared activism and communion. Join Joseph and Jonathan Eig, author of a forthcoming biography on King, for a conversation about how the legacies of these civil rights leaders informs the current struggle for racial justice.
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About the Book:
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Peniel E. Joseph
Dr. Peniel E. Joseph is Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at the University of Texas at Austin a...
Jonathan Eig
Jonathan Eig is the New York Times best-selling author of five books, including Ali: A Life, winner of the PEN/ESPN Award. A forme...
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[Event tile description: The event tile in the upper left corner of the event web page is a black and white photograph of Martin Luther King Jr. (left) and Malcolm X (right) in conversation with each other. The image was taken when both men were in Washington, D.C. to hear the Senate debate on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. King is mid-speech looking at Malcolm, who is looking down at the ground and smiling slightly. King wears a suit and Malcolm wears a trench coat. Close behind them is a group of men listening to their conversation. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons.]