My Life with Charles Billups and Martin Luther King

Please join Keith Miller a Professor at ASU as he discusses the memoir MY LIFE WITH CHARLES BILLUPS AND MARTIN LUTHER KING. In this memoir, Billups’ daughter, Rene Billups Baker, tells the story of her courageous father for the first time outside of Birmingham. She also adds her own personal experiences with Martin Luther King. Keith D. Miller is the author of Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources and Martin Luther King’s Biblical Epic: His Great, Final Speech. He has also published many essays on Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Frederick Douglass, and Jackie Robinson. A professor of English at Arizona State University, he has taught many courses about the language of the civil rights movement.