The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
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Two of the twentieth century’s most influential African American leaders—Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.—are often remembered as opposites, divided by “black power” versus “civil rights” and militancy versus nonviolence. In this dual biography, Peniel E. Joseph reframes their lives as a connected struggle for black freedom, showing how each man’s ideas, strategies, and personal evolution shaped—and challenged—the other across the arc of the civil rights era. Drawing on Joseph’s distinctive historical scholarship, the book explores how movements are remembered, misrepresented, or erased, and what it means to pursue justice through different moral and political paths. Ultimately, it offers a nuanced, revisionist portrait of two revolutionary figures whose legacies are inseparable from the tensions and possibilities of their time.
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Basic Books
Published Apr 7, 2020
368 pages
ISBN: 9781541617865
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First Published
2020
Language
eng
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