King Maker: Applying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Leadership Lessons in Working with Athletes and Entertainers

The story of Martin Luther King Jr. is one of the most influential narratives in American and world history. Here Dr. Marcus Goodie Goodloe shares a missing and often forgotten part of that story writing vividly and insightfully about Kings efforts to intersect athletes and entertainers in the struggle for equal opportunity justice and peace.Kingmaker: Applying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. s Leadership Lessons in Working with Athletes and Entertainerswill inspire you to live differently while pursuing more enlightening and practical ways to do just that. Dr. Goodloe challenges us all to learn from and understand Martin Luther King Jr.s life and legacy in new and different ways. Focusing on Kings working relationships with respected figures in the athletic and entertainment industries Goodloe extracts leadership lessons from which people of all walks of life can learn. A remarkably revealing and highly provocative presentation by an emerging young King scholar who is also committed to educating and empowering Kingmakers for today and tomorrow.Lewis V. BaldwinEmeritus Professor of Religious StudiesVanderbilt UniversityAuthor of The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King JrFOREWORDAs one who taught the life and ministry of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to seminary students preparing for ministry I was intrigued with the fresh word and new insights that Goodie Goodloe shares about Dr. King. Goodie writes about the Dr. King we thought we knew. Using very clear language he introduces us to an easy reading of a book with well researched and well documented stories that makes Dr. King better known and deeper appreciated. The segregated Christians their pastors and the poor who marched and went to jail with Dr. King did not underwrite the high cost of freedom.Goodie explains the leadership skills of Dr. King as a fundraiser and strategist who had cultivated friendships with actors entertainers and athletes whose fundraising efforts kept the Civil Rights Movement alive. Teachers of leadership can inform and inspire their students by reading how Dr. Goodloe interprets the leadership genius of the peaceful warrior author preacher-orator scholar and servant leader in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. You will not regret purchasing this book or more copies to give friends.The Reverend Doctor J. Alfred Smith Sr. Pastor Emeritus Allen Temple Baptist Church Oakland CAProfessor Emeritus American Baptist Seminary of the West Berkeley CA