Could Martin Luther King Jr. Have Led a College?
After reading and reviewing a new book, The Unlikely Disciple and its commentary on Jerry Falwell, I asked myself if Martin Luther King could have achieved similar success as the leader, or possibly the founder of an institution of higher education. Only 39 at the time of his death, it is quite possible, that had he not been assassinated, Dr. King would be alive today at age 81. And it was also possible, as politics changed in the country and television technology advanced, that he would have changed the direction of his career. Jerry Falwell behaved like a bigoted fool lambasting feminists and homosexuals and he had opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. However, I could not deny that Falwell had skillfully used television to turn a local church into a national mega-church and a very small college into a national university. While King resigned pastoral leadership in Montgomery, Alabama to devote full-time to civil rights activism, Falwell remained the pastor of his expanding church as
