The Voice at the Kitchen Table

In January 1956, Martin Luther King Jr. sat alone at his kitchen table in Montgomery, Alabama. It was midnight. He was twenty-seven years old, and the bus boycott he was leading had brought death threats to his doorstep. His phone rang thirty to forty times a day with hateful callers. That night, hands wrapped around a cup of coffee gone cold, he bowed his head and prayed aloud: "Lord, I am down here trying to do what is right.…