Book Description
Through text and photos, this is the story of the people, places, and events along the more than 500 Martin Luther King streets found in communities across the country. Full color.
Author : Jonathan Tilove
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Through text and photos, this is the story of the people, places, and events along the more than 500 Martin Luther King streets found in communities across the country. Full color.
Author : Lisbeth Kaiser
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2020-12-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0593225430
Introducing the latest addition to the Who HQ program: board book biographies of relevant and important figures, created specifically for the preschool audience! The #1 New York Times Bestselling Who Was? series expands into the board book space, bringing age-appropriate biographies of influential figures to readers ages 2-4. The chronology and themes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s meaningful life are presented in a masterfully succinct text, with just a few sentences per page. The fresh, stylized illustrations are sure to captivate young readers and adults alike. With a read-aloud biographical summary in the back, this age-appropriate introduction honors and shares the life and work of one of the most influential civil rights activists of our time.
Author : Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780312199906
Quotations by the civil rights leader cover such issues as race, justice, and human dignity.
Author : Martin Luther King (III)
Publisher : Amistad
Page : pages
File Size : 40,24 MB
Release : 2018
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 9781536430264
A poignant account of the author's brief years shared with his civil rights leader father offers insight into their special bond, their separation during Dr. King's imprisonment and the author's 5-year-old witness to the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
Author : Doreen Rappaport
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 15,5 MB
Release : 2007-12
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781613833872
This definitive picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose dream changed America--and the world--forever.
Author : Michael Eric Dyson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0684867761
A private citizen who transformed the world around him, Martin Luther King, Jr., was arguably the greatest American who ever lived. Now, after more than thirty years, few people understand how truly radical he was. In this groundbreaking examination of the man and his legacy, provocative author, lecturer, and professor Michael Eric Dyson restores King's true vitality and complexity and challenges us to embrace the very contradictions that make King relevant in today's world.
Author : James T. de Kay
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 37,67 MB
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0307772179
Learn about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with this revised edition of the popular Random House Step Up(TM) Biography of the great civil-rights leader and advocate for peaceful resistance --includes new text and additional dynamic photos. Perfect for reading level: 2.2. When Martin Luther King Jr., was growing up, he wasn't allowed to use the water fountains the white children drank from--and he didn't understand why. As he grew older, he studied hard and practiced speaking to large groups. He marched and petitioned to change laws that separated blacks from whites. As the leader of America's civil rights movement, he inspired--and continues to inspire--millions of people to help change this country for the better. For over half a century, Landmark Books have been an important part of children's libraries. Hailed as the first historical series for kids, Landmark Books show us where we've been and where we're going.
Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,43 MB
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0807001139
Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King’s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can’t Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963—during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation—Asia and Africa were “moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace.” King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: “For years now, I have heard the word ‘Wait!’ It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This ‘Wait’ has almost always meant ‘Never.’ We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that ‘justice too long delayed is justice denied.’”
Author : David J. Garrow
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 27,93 MB
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1504011538
The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government’s massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.’s phones by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he set in motion one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American history. Sparked by informant reports of King’s alleged involvement with communists, the FBI amassed a trove of information on the civil rights leader. Their findings failed to turn up any evidence of communist influence, but they did expose sensitive aspects of King’s personal life that the FBI went on to use in its attempts to mar his public image. Based on meticulous research into the agency’s surveillance records, historian David Garrow illustrates how the FBI followed King’s movements throughout the country, bugging his hotel rooms and tapping his phones wherever he went, in an obsessive quest to destroy his growing influence. Garrow uncovers the voyeurism and racism within J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI while unmasking Hoover’s personal desire to destroy King. The spying only intensified once King publicly denounced the Vietnam War, and the FBI continued to surveil him until his death. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. clearly demonstrates an unprecedented abuse of power by the FBI and the government as a whole.
Author : Johnny Ray Moore
Publisher : Worthy Kids/Ideals
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 28,69 MB
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781546034421
Teach little learners about beloved civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. with this 200-word board book. This little book introduces Martin Luther King Jr., an iconic leader of the civil rights movement. Simple, toddler-friendly text tells how King grew up, how he became a minister, and how he worked to end segregation in America. Accessible for even the youngest of children, The Story of Martin Luther King Jr. helps readers understand who King is, what he did, and why his story still matters today.