The Servant-Leadership of Martin Luther King Jr.: A Reflection, Book Review, and Interview with King: A Life Author Jonathan Eig

This article examines the servant-leadership of Martin Luther King Jr. through a book review of Jonathan Eig’s landmark biography King: A Life and an interview with the author. The article begins with a reflection on King’s servant-leadership through Greenleaf’s notions of power, strength, and growth through loss. Implications for servant-leader moral development based on reports of possible ethical failures by King are also considered.