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AFFAIR ALLEGATIONS SURROUND MLK IN NEW TELL-ALL: Noted civil rights author Taylor Branch offers details in latest book.
January 5, 2006
*In his new book “At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968,” author Taylor Branch says that civil rights legend Martin Luther King Jr. confessed an affair to his wife, Coretta Scott King, as she was recovering from a hysterectomy in 1968.
"He disclosed to her the one mistress who meant most to him since 1963, a married alumna of Fisk [University], of dignified bearing like Coretta, but different," writes Branch in the new book, excerpted in this week’s Time magazine.
Branch says King’s transgression stemmed from his depression over the movement’s direction and constant premonitions of his own murder.
The alleged affair is one of several revelations outlined in the book by Branch, author of “Parting the Waters” and “Pillar of Fire.” “At Canaan’s Edge” is the final book in the trilogy of King works from the author.
http://www.eurweb.com/story.cfm?id=24206
PEACE!
ISAIAH
January 5, 2006
*In his new book “At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968,” author Taylor Branch says that civil rights legend Martin Luther King Jr. confessed an affair to his wife, Coretta Scott King, as she was recovering from a hysterectomy in 1968.
"He disclosed to her the one mistress who meant most to him since 1963, a married alumna of Fisk [University], of dignified bearing like Coretta, but different," writes Branch in the new book, excerpted in this week’s Time magazine.
Branch says King’s transgression stemmed from his depression over the movement’s direction and constant premonitions of his own murder.
The alleged affair is one of several revelations outlined in the book by Branch, author of “Parting the Waters” and “Pillar of Fire.” “At Canaan’s Edge” is the final book in the trilogy of King works from the author.
http://www.eurweb.com/story.cfm?id=24206
PEACE!
ISAIAH