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As a young photojournalist in the early 1950s, Flip Schulke began covering social issues. In 1958, while working as a freelancer for "Jet and Ebony", he was assigned to photograph Martin Luther King for the first time. After that, 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. For a decade before King's death, Schulke was privy to momentous events both public and private. This book is the result. Published to coincide with Martin Luther King Day on 16th January, 1995, this text provides a visual record of King's life and work by one of the few men King trusted enough to give complete access. Schulke's images, combined with his commentary on both the moment and its place in the context of the Civil Rights Movement, create an immediate and revealing portrait of Martin Luther King.