Martin Luther King Jr. ‘Knew That His Own Government Was Out to Destroy Him.’ Here’s What Helped Him Persevere

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Jonathan Eig, author of the biography ‘King: A Life,’ spoke on a Jan. 3 episode of NPR’s ‘Book of the Day’ podcast about Martin Luther King Jr., and noted that MLK didn’t have plans to become a civil rights leader when he joined the Montgomery Bus boycott in 1965.

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