And All OUr Wounds Forgiven (1994)

by Julius Lester

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When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956, he was prepared for a life of teaching and relative tranquility. But history had another plan for him: here, a veteran author re-envisions the Martin Luther King Jr. story in fearful, exciting, and violent terms. Political and provocative, And All Our Wounds Forgiven is both a compelling political fable and a striking and tender love story about one of this century's most charismatic black leaders and the two women he loved.… (more)

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A story about the Civil Rights movement focuses on a leader who is assassinated, his relationships with his Black wife and white assistant, and one of his followers. There is a very disturbing rape scene.
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"But those were the days when the media at least still understood the distinction between private and public. Those were the days when a man could act with integrity in the public arena while his private life was a paradigm of immorality." (p. 66) (

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Lyndon Baines Johnson

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To Milan Sabatini evermore

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I do not know where the story begins, though i am integral to it, i am not sure i know even what the story is as neither my life nor death constitutes the story.

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When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956, he was prepared for a life of teaching and relative tranquility. But history had another plan for him: here, a veteran author re-envisions the Martin Luther King Jr. story in fearful, exciting, and violent terms. Political and provocative, And All Our Wounds Forgiven is both a compelling political fable and a striking and tender love story about one of this century's most charismatic black leaders and the two women he loved.

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