European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Books volume presents a rounded View of Kings origins by Cynthia Durcanin Cox news service the first volume of what is considered the most definitive project Ever devoted to the life of Martin Luther King or. Chronicles his childhood hatred of Whites his Early religious doubts and the choices that catapulted him to the forefront of the civil rights movement. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and student essays. Culled to serve traces Kings family from the last generation of slaves to his 22nd year. The Book which will be published next month chronicles the hatred King Felt toward Whites Back to age 6, when the father of a White playmate told his son he could no longer play with Young King. He continued to Harbor hostility toward Whites until he was 15 and visited the desegregated North. In a letter to his father he wrote a after we passed Washington there was no discrimination at All the White people Here Are very Nice. We go to anyplace we want to and sit anywhere we want the King papers project which began in 1985, is sponsored by the King Center in association with Stanford and Emory universities. Called to serve is the first of the proposed 14-volume project based on More than 3 he of Kings papers speeches and sermons. The project made National headlines last year alter researchers discovered that King had plagiarized portions of his academic papers including his doctoral dissertation. A it was something that i had not counted on when i took this Job Quot said Clayborne Carson the Stanford University historian Coretta Scott King asked to direct the project. Without question the most startling discoveries in volume 1 were the revelations of plagiarism said Carson but in context he added that pales next to the formative environment that shaped Kings views. Quot the most important aspect is that it gives us a rounded View of Kings origins his background that is something i done to think is available in the existing biographies a Carson said. Christine King Farris Kings sister said a that is from lop Martin Luther King or. On Chicago Pool Hall Stop in 1966 and speaking in 1962 and 68. Very important. If others Are to make a significant contribution they need to Sec him As a person As an individual. There was nothing saintly about him. He was just an Ordinary child coming Ralph e. Lucr a former Emory professor who was an associate editor on volumes 1 and 2, said the Book paints a Rich picture of the continuity of the King family its roots in the Black Church and ties to Atlanta a Black institutions. It also provides several insights into Kings struggle against racism. As a child he was denied a promotion at the Atlanta journal after delivering the newspaper for five years. According to the Book he was refused the Job because it involved handling Money and coming into the downtown office where Many of the clerks were White women. David j. Garrow whose Book on King bearing the Cross won a 1987 pulitzer prize said the significance of volume 1 of the King papers lies in its shelf life. A a it a not a question of does it change anybody a understanding of things this month or next a he said. Quot its really a matter of putting this definitive background and detail on 2,000 different Library not far from Malcolm xes Markby Earnest cr0gan United press International a new Book Worth Reading while we recognize Martin Luther King Day is Martin and Mal Elm and America by James h. Cone. King and Malcolm a two giants among the american Black leaders of the 1960s, Are often conceived of As Polar opposites a King a believer of the american dream in which Blacks would one Day participate Malcolm a separatist who viewed America As a Nightmare. In this important and groundbreaking study Cone one of the godfathers of the a Black theology movement of the 1960s and �?T70s and now a professor at Union theological Seminary in new York contends the two menus visions were actually converging. He cites Kings break with much of the Black leadership Over the War in Vietnam and Malcolm a break with the Black muslims and his pilgrimage to Mecca. In Many ways the relationship Between Malcolm and King play out an ongoing debate within the Black Community that stretches Back to the 19th Century and continues today a Between Integrationist and nationalists what Cone correctly identifies As a the two main resistance traditions in african american history and 8 a sunday january 19, 1992
