The Two Faces of Dr. King

The Reverend Martin Luther King, who wants to be “the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law,” is pastor of the 4,000 members of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, organizer and hands-down winner of the famous Negro bus boycott in Montgomery, and author of the recent and very successful book Stride Toward Freedom. As a matter of fact, in all of his 29 years, King’s fairy godmother has mismanaged his career only once: when, last fall, she allowed him to be seriously stabbed a) by a Negro, unfortunately, b) in the North, unfortunately, and c) for no ideological reason whatsoever, unfortunately.

The Yale Undergraduate Lecture Committee invited Dr. King to succeed Walter Reuther on its 1958-1959 program with an address in the University’s 2,000-seat Woolsey Hall. One seat, Wednesday a week ago, was occupied by me—under orders.

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The Reverend Martin Luther King, who wants to be “the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law,” is pastor of the 4,000 members of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, organizer and hands-down winner of the famous Negro bus boycott in Montgomery, and author of the recent and very successful book Stride Toward Freedom. As a matter of fact, in all of his 29 years, King’s fairy godmother has mismanaged his career only once: when, last fall, she allowed him to be seriously stabbed a) by a Negro, unfortunately, b) in the North, unfortunately, and c) for no ideological reason whatsoever, unfortunately.

The Yale Undergraduate Lecture Committee invited Dr. King to succeed Walter Reuther on its 1958-1959 program with an address in the University’s 2,000-seat Woolsey Hall. One seat, Wednesday a week ago, was occupied by me—under orders.