Hugh Pearson

When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2004)

The main topic of this wonderful book is the near fatal stabbing of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Izola Curry, a mentally unstable African-American woman, during Dr. King's visit to Harlem to promote his book Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story in September 1958. However, the author also use...