Lewis Baldwin (ed.), Rufus Burrow, Jr., Barbara Holmes, and Susan H. Winfield (contributors). The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.: Boundaries of Law, Politics and Religion (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002), xx-316 pp.; ISBN 0-268-03355-2 (paper).

The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion is a most insightful exploration of King's understanding of religion and ethics and how they normatively connect to law, politics, domestic and foreign affairs. Lewis Baldwin noted that King realized that there was a growing number of white "new south" thinkers who, because of his moral and ethical proposition against injustice and inequality, would be moved to join the struggle to change the power structure. Barbara Holmes and Susan H. Winfield, in "King, the Constitution, and the Courts," use the techniques of legal scholars to discuss major cases that affected African Americans and how the decisions in those cases confronted King and the movement. In "American Political Traditions and the Christian Faith: King's Thought and Praxis," Baldwin examines King's use of the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and key documents of America as a way of appealing to the conscience of the nation and the world.