How MLK Jr.'s Prison Sentence Landed JFK In The White House

Georgia Today

English - February 24, 2021 15:27 - 23 minutes - 32.6 MB
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Weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for participating in a lunch counter sit-in in Atlanta and sentenced to four months of hard labor. Thanks to some back-channel moves by the Kennedy campaign, King was released from prison. On Georgia Today, author Paul Kendrick explains how that changed party allegiances for Black and white voters in the South for generations.