Published:
July 6, 2020
"Dr. Peniel E. Joseph’s The Sword and The Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. could not have been published at a more apropos time," writes Jamal Eric Watson in his review.
"As the nation witness around-the-clock protests following the horrific deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor and countless other unarmed Black men and women killed at the hands of police officers and White vigilantes, Joseph provides readers with a historical blueprint on how two of the nation’s most prominent Black leaders of the 1960s — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X — navigated the political and social terrain of their era."