Claim: In the biography of Martin Luther King Jr. by Lerone Bennett Jr., he said that King studied Jesus and the Disinherited - a book by Howard Thurman based on a series of lectures that he presented at Samuel Huston College in April 1948.
Evidence: In his biography of Martin Luther King Jr., Lerone Bennett Jr. notes that King studied Thurman's Jesus and the Disinherited during the Montgomery bus boycott. The book developed out of a series of lectures that Thurman presented at Samuel Huston College in Austin, Texas, during April 1948."