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Transcript: Interview: Hugh Pearson on his book "When Harlem Nearly Killed King"
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- Tavis Smiley (NPR)
- Article date:
- September 5, 2003
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Interview: Hugh Pearson on his book "When Harlem Nearly Killed King"
Host: TONY COX
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM
TONY COX, host:
On April 4th, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and killed
in Memphis, Tennessee. But what if Dr. King's civil rights career
had ended a decade earlier, shortly after the successful bus boycott
in Montgomery, Alabama? How would the civil rights movement have
been different without Dr. King? We were dangerously close to finding
out. In September of 1958 Dr. King was nearly stabbed to death in
Harlem. Author and journalist Hugh Pearson's new book, "When Harlem
Nearly Killed King," uncovers the bizarre events ...