One year after assuming the pastorship of a Baptist church in Montgomery, Alabama, Martin Luther King Jr. was selected by the city’s black leaders in 1955 to head up the protest of Rosa Parks’ arrest.| Lapham’s Quarterly
During his forty-eight-year reign at the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover battled communism, kept secret files on Americans, and spied on Martin Luther King Jr.| Lapham’s Quarterly
In his first collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, Baldwin observed, “The story of my childhood is the usual bleak fantasy, and we can dismiss it with the restrained observation that I certainly would not consider living it again.”| Lapham’s Quarterly
The latest episode of The World in Time.| Lapham’s Quarterly
