Examining Martin Luther King Jr., in the momentous years after 'I Have a Dream'

The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was human, not a saint, though many insisted on placing him on that dangerous pedestal, and do still, 50 years after his death. As one character in August Wilson's '60s-set play "Two Trains Running" says, bluntly: "When you get to be a saint there ain't nothing else you can do but die."

The years following King's 1963 march on Washington, D.C., culminating in his deathless "I Have a Dream" oratory, were painful and difficult. In a 1967 interview, the year before