Eating Dr King's Dinner Author:Chuck Fager This book is Chuck Fager?s vivid personal account of the watershed 1965 direct action campaign in Selma, Alabama, which resulted in passage of the Voting Rights Act. — Chuck published the standard history of this movement in his widely praised book, Selma 1965 In Eating Dr. King's Dinner, he adds a compelling first-person counter... more »part, detailing his own previously untold story of being a rookie civil rights worker in Selma, at its height and during its ambiguous, revealing aftermath.
This odyssey took him into a jail cell with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and marches into the face of death threats by the Klan. It also brought him face to face with issues of vocation, identity and religion that have shaped his life as a writer and activist ever since.« less