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Article: Two authors, an aviator and a civil rights leader: Each man left his mark.
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- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- May 30, 2002
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Byline: Bob Trimble
Four new biographies tell of American men with unusual vision.
_``Martin Luther King Jr.'' by Marshall Frady; Lipper/Viking ($19.95)
For the man most responsible for changing the racial climate of America, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. endured more failures than triumphs in his all-too-brief life.
Only in Montgomery, Birmingham and Selma did Dr. King's passive resistance bring success. At Albany, St. Augustine, Chicago and Memphis, clever politicians and circumstances combined to defeat him.
But a scorecard does no justice to the man who emblazoned "I have a dream" on the conscience and consciousness of a ...