ormidable biography argues that by ‘hallowing’ the civil rights legend, ‘we have hollowed him’
Dr Martin Luther King jr had a major influence on the Northern Ireland civil rights movement. “He was very much our inspiration,” John Hume said shortly before accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in 1998, an accolade King himself had received 34 years earlier. “We believed in his words . . . in inclusivity, not exclusivity.”
As Jonathan Eig argues in this solemn but gripping biography, however, revering King as some kind of saint actually does ...
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