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Remembering Martin Luther King’s Last, Most Radical Book
Marking an anniversary of a book’s publication is, appropriately, reserved for books that were widely read when they first appeared many years ago. Books we commemorate with an anniversary are ones that ushered in a new way of thinking and influenced the way society tries to make sense of the world. Martin Luther King Jr.’s last book,
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community did neither of these things.
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Published in the long, hot summer of 1967, it was politely reviewed but dismissed. Milton R. Konvitz of the