Carefully walks the line of a white liberal in the civil rights movement and carefully walks the line of said person writing about said movement. Yet, MLK's frustration with the white moderate is easily understandable through reading this guy's perspective. He raises some good points about what actions lead to the most effective results but boy was it equal parts frustrating, informative, and relieving to see a white liberal both acknowledge and gloss over their deficiencies as an ally (relieving in that for once, one is authentically engaging in public critical self-reflection and critique, even if they missed some spots - which I think is honestly the most important contribution to the literature that this book makes.) I think reading it as a primary source on white liberalism and "good intentions activism" makes it a 4+ star book, but I think the rating must be reduced given the author's intended positionality of this writing. (Not that) surprised by the focus on white scholars of the movement and white activists but appreciated his limited engagement with the critique of white liberalism in reference to self. Would have loved to see a deep engagement with MLK's stance on the white moderate as applied to his praxis. On the whole, fascinating read but probably not exactly for the reasons intended by the author, though it does help round out an understanding of Chicago's civil rights movement in the 1960s, though it should definitely never be taken as a definitive or authoritative history of such, merely supplement to.