Description: This dual biography looks at the lives of two icons of Black resistance, comparing their goals, visions, and legacies and illuminating their surprising similarities.
Brief description: Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson is professor of transatlantic history and culture at the University of Augsburg. Waldschmidt-Nelson's many books include Inventing the Silent Majority in Western Europe and the United States: Conservatism in the 1960s and 1970s.
Review Quotes:
"Both concise and informative . . . . Recommended."--Choice
"A highly readable account of the lives of two of the most dynamic figures in the civil rights movement."--The Historian
"A useful primer for anyone interested in reviewing the basic frameworks of the lives of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. . . . A thoughtful, nuanced, well-researched work of great value."--Journal of American History
"While highlighting their different politico-religious perspectives, social visions, and styles of leadership, Waldschmidt-Nelson reminds us that these leaders learned from and influenced each other and that they can only be understood in relation to one another. . . . The prose is lively and exciting, and the content is clear."--Journal of Southern History
"A lucid and readable introduction to the role of two key twentieth-century actors in the struggle for Black equality in the USA, seen through their respective biographies, themselves shaped by American social and political conditions."--Ethnic and Racial Studies
"Well written, concise, smartly organized, and highly readable."--Journal of African American History