EPISODE · Sep 19, 2025 · 38 MIN
Ep. 53: Jonathan Eig on the Life and Times of Martin Luther King
from The Democratic Constitution Podcast · host Lucas De Hart and Luke Pickrell
Luke talks with Jonathan Eig, author of the Politzer Prize-winning King: A Life. Jonathan discusses King’s life leading up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, his opinion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, his stance on the Vietnam War, his relationship with other activists like Stokely Carmichael and Muhammad Ali, and King’s final book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos of Community?, in which he says that the Civil Rights Movement has “left the realm of constitutional rights.”
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Luke talks with Jonathan Eig, author of the Politzer Prize-winning King: A Life. Jonathan discusses King’s life leading up to the Montgomery Bus Boycott, his opinion of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, his stance on the Vietnam War, his relationship with other activists like Stokely Carmichael and Muhammad Ali, and King’s final book, Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos of Community?, in which he says that the Civil Rights Movement has “left the realm of constitutional rights.”
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Ep. 53: Jonathan Eig on the Life and Times of Martin Luther King
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