Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr.

Clarence B. Jones, close King advisor and draft speechwriter, has done much to reinforce a conservative hijacking of King''s image with the publication of his controversial books What Would Martin Say? (2008) and Behind the Dream (2011). King emerges from Jones''s books not as a prophetic radical who attacked systemic racial injustice, economic exploitation, and wars of aggression, but as a fierce...