Martin Luther King, one of few winners of the Nobel Peace Prize to admit to even a single incarceration, marched off to jail last week for at least the 15th time. Garbed in his regular Bastille Day uniform—denim shirt, sweater and blue work pants—King flew from Atlanta to Birmingham, Ala., toting three books, the Bible, John Kenneth Galbraith's The New Industrial State, and William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner. He was whisked by sheriff's deputies to the Bessemer jail, about twelve miles from Birmingham in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold. "I am sad," he noted, "that the Supreme...
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