When Harlem Nearly Killed King

A Powerful Picture of How Change in Race-Relations in the U.S. have Really Occurred; In 1958, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was celebrating his first major triumph: the US Supreme Court decision desegregating buses in Montgomery, Alabama. With his book about to be released, King travelled to New York for a promotional tour. Then, in a little known incident, a mentally unstable black woman stabbed the civil rights leader, and an acclaimed black surgeon saved his life in Harlem Hospital, using a little-known and difficult procedure. Now, the acclaimed author of The Shadow of the Panther captures this historical moment, exploding some of the myths surround this event and arguing that change occurs not in one grand gesture, but painfully, in a thousand small and contradictory ways.