As a young photojournalist just out of college in the early fifties, Flip Schulke moved to Miami and began covering social issues.
This book is the result..
He was privy to momentous events public and private, and always he was photographing.
For a decade before King\'s death, Schulke was as close to him and his inner circle as a photographer could be.
At King\'s invitation, he began photographing behind the scenes at Southern Christian Leadership Conference meetings and eventually became committed to covering King and the growing Civil Rights movement.
Schulke became convinced that King\'s plans would change the face of the country.
Afterwards, the two men talked late into the night about King\'s philosophy.
In 1958, while worKing as a freelancer for Jet and Ebony, he was assigned to photograph Martin Luther King.
As a young photojournalist just out of college in the early fifties, Flip Schulke moved to Miami and began covering social issues