Author: Stewart Burns
Bio: Stewart Burns is an activist-historian who has spent thirty years studying the life of Martin Luther King Jr. The second edition of his biography of Martin Luther King Jr., *To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mission and the Movement That Made Him*,  won the 2005 Wilbur Award. He has also published books on social movements in the 1960s and the Montgomery bus boycott, the latter of which was made into the HBO film *Boycott*. 

Dr. Burns is also the Chair and Professor of Ethical & Creative Leadership and of Martin Luther King Jr. Studies at Union Institute & University. He earned his Ph.D. at The University of California Santa Cruz and has previously taught at Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Stanford, Williams, and Antioch.

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"Stewart Burns, Activist Historian". *Stewart Burns History*. http://stewartburnshistory.com/. Accessed Nov 6, 2020.