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Black and white, religious leaders looked upon Dr. Martin Luther King with some kind of awe. They saw something of the Old Testament prophet in him. And his closest followers looked on him almost as a messiah. He had a charisma” as the theologians put it, an inspired quality, an inner force pressing him on. Although many were skeptical of his rather dubious non-violent methods, no one ever questioned his cherished goal — equality and justice experienced in the brotherhood of all men. On August...