Stephen Kendrick

Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, thirty-one-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in at Rich's Department Store in Atlanta. That day would lead to the first night King had ever spent in jail—and the time that King's family most feared for his life.
While King's imprisonment was decried as a moral scandal in some quarters and celebrated in others, for the two presidential candidates—John...