When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

by Hugh Pearson

Book Overview

When Harlem Nearly Killed King spins the tale of a little-known episode in the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. how, in 1958, King was stabbed by a deranged black woman in Harlem, and then saved by Harlem Hospital's most acclaimed African-American surgeon, using a little known and difficult procedure.

Pearson recreates America at the dawn of the civil rights movement, and in so doing probes and examines the living body politic of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 158322274X
• ISBN13: 9781583222744
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.5"