ROBERT COHEN is a historian of social protest, African American history, and student politics, who has written extensively on 1960s America. His most recent book, Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century won the Lillian Smith Book Award. His other works on racism and anti-racist protest in the South include Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Civil Rights, Sit-ins, and Black Women’s Student Activism (Georgia) and Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s, coedited by David J. Snyder. He lives and writes in New York.

Not Dreaming combines excellent analysis and engaging and accessible writing with a deep grasp of both Dr. King’s writing and biography and the massive existing scholarship on Dr. King. Inspired by persistent and pervasive misuse of Dr. King words and stature, especially excerpts from King’s 'I Have a Dream' speech delivered at the March on Washington, Cohen sets out to make King’s radicalism, the ideas that made him an 'inconvenient hero,' accessible to all—not just specialists.

ROBERT COHEN is a historian of social protest, African American history, and student politics, who has written extensively on 1960s America. His most recent book, Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century won the Lillian Smith Book Award. His other works on racism and anti-racist protest in the South include Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Civil Rights, Sit-ins, and Black Women’s Student Activism (Georgia) and Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s, coedited by David J. Snyder. He lives and writes in New York.

Not Dreaming combines excellent analysis and engaging and accessible writing with a deep grasp of both Dr. King’s writing and biography and the massive existing scholarship on Dr. King. Inspired by persistent and pervasive misuse of Dr. King words and stature, especially excerpts from King’s 'I Have a Dream' speech delivered at the March on Washington, Cohen sets out to make King’s radicalism, the ideas that made him an 'inconvenient hero,' accessible to all—not just specialists.

ROBERT COHEN is a historian of social protest, African American history, and student politics, who has written extensively on 1960s America. His most recent book, Confronting Jim Crow: Race, Memory, and the University of Georgia in the Twentieth Century won the Lillian Smith Book Award. His other works on racism and anti-racist protest in the South include Howard Zinn’s Southern Diary: Civil Rights, Sit-ins, and Black Women’s Student Activism (Georgia) and Rebellion in Black and White: Southern Student Activism in the 1960s, coedited by David J. Snyder. He lives and writes in New York.

Not Dreaming combines excellent analysis and engaging and accessible writing with a deep grasp of both Dr. King’s writing and biography and the massive existing scholarship on Dr. King. Inspired by persistent and pervasive misuse of Dr. King words and stature, especially excerpts from King’s 'I Have a Dream' speech delivered at the March on Washington, Cohen sets out to make King’s radicalism, the ideas that made him an 'inconvenient hero,' accessible to all—not just specialists.