Zócalo Public SquareWhy Martin Luther King Saw His Life as a Sacrifice – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Why Martin Luther King Saw His Life as a Sacrifice https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/09/27/martin-luther-king-saw-life-sacrifice/ideas/interview/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2018/09/27/martin-luther-king-saw-life-sacrifice/ideas/interview/#respond Thu, 27 Sep 2018 07:01:22 +0000 Interview by Warren Olney https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=97055 David J. Garrow is the author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1987. Warren Olney, a veteran journalist for KCRW, Southern California’s flagship NPR affiliate, who covered the civil rights movement as a young reporter, interviewed Garrow about King’s life in December 2017 in Los Angeles. They discussed the ongoing relevance of King’s work and his deep commitment to Christianity, equality, and nonviolence—including his response when he was actually punched by Nazis. This transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

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]]> David J. Garrow is the author of Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which won the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1987. Warren Olney, a veteran journalist for KCRW, Southern California’s flagship NPR affiliate, who covered the civil rights movement as a young reporter, interviewed Garrow about King’s life in December 2017 in Los Angeles. They discussed the ongoing relevance of King’s work and his deep commitment to Christianity, equality, and nonviolence—including his response when he was actually punched by Nazis.

This transcript has been edited for clarity and length.

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