Joseph, Peniel E

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August 12, 2020

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Black Power Scholar Illustrates How MLK And Malcolm X Influenced Each Other

In his book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Peniel Joseph braids together the lives of the two civil rights leaders. He says that King and Malcolm X had "convergent visions" for Black America — but their strategies for how to reach the goal was informed by their different upbringings.

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