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41. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Man of Peace (Hello Reader!, Level 4) by Garnet Jackson | |
Paperback: 48
Pages
(2001-01)
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42. The Life And Words Of Martin Luther King Jr. (Scholastic Biography) by Ira Peck | |
Paperback: 112
Pages
(1991-01-01)
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Great info on Martin Luther King Jr. |
43. I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr by Michael Eric Dyson | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(2001-02-06)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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. Customer Reviews (21)
Flawed
Worth reading, but flawed
Testify!
An interesting expose
Fascinating |
44. Killingthe Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Gerald Posner | |
Paperback: 464
Pages
(1999-04-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description In Killing the Dream, Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed,brings to light interesting new evidence, from confidential files topreviously undisclosed facts, in an attempt to discriminate rumor fromtruth. Posner looks for answers to questions about where the fatalshot was fired from, the role of elite military personnel who werepresent in the area, and what social connections drove Ray in the yearleading up to the murder. Besides focusing on the day of the assassination and the courtroombattles that followed, Posner's book also offers a detailedexamination of Ray's life, from his years in the army to his career asa petty hood. This well-researched study of the characters and theevents preceding and following the murder makes for an honest,non-sensationalist journalistic account of events that have beendistorted and convoluted over time. Customer Reviews (43)
Why was, King assassinated?
Outstanding - and I'm pro-conspiracy!
An Excellent Read, But No "Case Closed"
James Earl Ray's Story
More Political Propaganda |
45. The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia by Clayborn Carson, Tenisha H. Armstrong, Susan A. Carson, Erin K. Cook, Susan Englander | |
Hardcover: 456
Pages
(2008-01-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description As editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Clayborne Carson, with the assistance of his staff at Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, had access to a variety of documents relating to all aspects of Dr. King's life and career.The encyclopedia provides readers with over 280 entries that offer fresh and engaging insights into Dr. King and the civil rights movement.From their unique familiarity with these materials, they have compiled an encyclopedia offering a fresh and exciting look at the work of Dr. King and the course of the civil rights movement. |
46. The Last Crusade: Martin Luther King Jr., The Fbi, And The Poor People's Campaign by Gerald D Mcknight | |
Hardcover: 208
Pages
(1998-01-09)
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47. Martin Luther King, Jr., Day: Count and Celebrate! (Holidays-Count and Celebrate!) by Fredrick McKissack, Lisa Beringer Mckissack | |
Library Binding: 32
Pages
(2009-04)
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48. Lets Read About-- Martin Luther King, Jr (Scholastic First Biographies) | |
Unknown Binding:
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(2001-01-01)
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49. Legacy Of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion by Lewis V. Baldwin | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2002-03-01)
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50. Quotations of Martin Luther King (Great American Quote Books) by Martin Luther King Jr. | |
Hardcover: 36
Pages
(2004-10-01)
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51. The F.B.I. and Martin Luther King, Jr. by David J. Garrow | |
Paperback: 32
Pages
(1983-02-24)
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52. Why We Can't Wait (The King Legacy) by Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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(2011-01-11)
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Editorial Review Product Description Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 Customer Reviews (32)
Great service
Sad & Inspiring all at once!
If Only He Had Lived
Transports you to an inside perspective of The Civil Rights movement
Very highly recommended |
53. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (King Legacy) by Martin Luther King Jr. | |
Paperback: 256
Pages
(2010-01-01)
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A wonderful book with new context from a King Scholar
good book |
54. MLK: The Martin Luther King, Jr Tapes | |
Audio CD: 4
Pages
(1994-06-01)
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THE MARTIN LUTHER KING,TAPES
Mighty KING, forever!
King Speeches
Being one with history... |
55. The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation by Drew Hansen | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2005-02-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In The Dream, Drew D. Hansen explores the fascinating and little-known history of King's legendary address. The Dream insightfully considers how King's speech "has slowly remade the American imagination," and led us closer to King's visionary goal of a redeemed America. Customer Reviews (7)
A Good Read with Good Insights
An Insider View of Greatness
The Power of God in Man
More than a cuddly icon But minor grumpiness aside, I found this book hard to put down. The description of the organization for the August 1963 March on Washington was fascinating in its details about the people who attended it. One got the impression that the day was pretty disorganized, with the crowd making decisions on its own about when to start marching. Hansen also did a nice job of showing the internal disharmonies among groups within "the movement," as well as hinting that MLK's leadership done to him rather than pursued by him -- less because of his ability to manage and lead than because of his philosophical sophistication, personal courage, stamina and eloquence. That King comes across as a preacher and a prophet (as opposed to a great organizer) does him no disservice, but actually helps to humanize him and make the Civil Rights movement more real. Hansen did a nice job handling the post-1963 life of the speech. He is honest about the impatience that some blacks felt about the 'dreaminess' of the speech, especially as the movement's gains stalled and the violence continued. Hansen nicely captures the slightly radioactive nature of the speech among national politicians (many of whom were wary of King's alleged Communist sympathies) in the years before King's death and the cloyingly hagiographic tributes about King and the speech after 1968. Hansen shows how King's memory has been sanitized and rendered harmless by linking him exclusively with the "I Have a Dream" speech. In opposing the Jim Crow laws, a main (but not the only) point of the speech, King targeted a system that was abhorrent to Northern whites and a source of shame to many in the South. Getting rid of it was the relatively easy matter of making the abuses public. But King's next targets proved more difficult -- the hard work of eliminating more subtle forms of racism from American hearts on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line. King's premature death allowed Americans to accept him as a national martyr and prophet, but ironically delayed the more difficult soul-searching about America's war plans in Vietnam, its endemic racism and the blind economic violence perpetrated against the poor and powerless.
"I have a dream" - more than just a speech |
56. Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by Hampton Sides | |
Hardcover: 480
Pages
(2010-04-27)
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Editorial Review Product Description David Grann is most recently the author of The Devil and Sherlock Holmes as well as the #1 New York Times bestseller The Lost City of Z. Read his review of Hellhound on His Trail: Hampton Sides has long been one of the great narrative nonfiction writers of our time, excavating essential pieces of American history--from the daring rescue of POWs during World War II to the settling of the West--and bringing them vividly to life. Now in his new book, Hellhound on His Trail, he applies his enormous gifts to one of the most important and heart-wrenching chapters in U.S. history: the stalking and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., by James Earl Ray. The book chronicles the terrifying collision of these two figures. In 1967, King was struggling to complete his monumental Civil Rights crusade and to maintain, amid the rise of more militant factions, the movement’s nonviolent nobility. While King increasingly intuits his own death, Ray has begun to track him down. Through Sides’ prodigious research, Ray emerges as one of the eeriest characters, a prison escapee and racist who wears alligator shoes and is constantly transforming himself, changing names and physical appearances. He is determined to become somebody, to insert himself into the national consciousness, through a single unthinkable act of violence. Sides illuminates not only the forces that culminated in King’s assassination; he also reveals the largely forgotten story of how his death led to the largest manhunt in American history. Almost unfathomably, it is J. Edgar Hoover, the person who had long hoped for King’s destruction and had even spied on him, who ultimately brings King’s killer to justice. Hellhound on His Trail reconstructs this taut, tense narrative with the immediacy of a novel. Yet what makes the book so powerful--indeed what lifts it into the ranks of a masterpiece--is that the story unfolds against the larger backdrop of the Civil Rights movement and the struggle to remake the country. If Ray is able to undergo a final metamorphosis, it is King, through his life and ultimate sacrifice, who enacts the greatest transformation: changing the character of a nation. (Photo © Matt Richman) Questions for Hampton Sides Q: How did the idea for Hellhound on His Trail come to you? What made you decide to focus on James Earl Ray? Q: The "Notes" and "Bibliography" sections of Hellhound on His Trail total more than 50 pages--how did you begin to tackle the wealth of information that exists about Martin Luther King’s assassination? What was your research process like? Q: How did you come up with the title? Is there significance to it? Q: The King assassination, like the JFK assassination, is rife with conspiracy theories. How did you deal with them? Q: Can you compare Hellhound on His Trail to your previous books? Are there similarities among them? Q:What made you decide to pursue writing as a career? Have you always wanted to be a journalist? (Photo © Gary Oakley) Customer Reviews (99)
Responsible and accomplished
Hellhound on his Trail
Very Informative....... Read If You Want The Details
Okay, As Far As It Goes
Engaging Read |
57. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates | |
Paperback: 224
Pages
(2007-08-15)
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58. Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) by Troy Jackson | |
Hardcover: 248
Pages
(2008-11-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description "The history books may write it Rev. King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the struggle here, and now he is moving to Atlanta for bigger responsibilities." -- Member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, November 1959 Preacher -- this simple term describes the twenty-five-year-old Ph.D. in theology who arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, to become the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in 1954. His name was Martin Luther King Jr., but where did this young minister come from? What did he believe, and what role would he play in the growing activism of the civil rights movement of the 1950s? In Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader, author Troy Jackson chronicles King's emergence and effectiveness as a civil rights leader by examining his relationship with the people of Montgomery, Alabama. Using the sharp lens of Montgomery's struggle for racial equality to investigate King's burgeoning leadership, Jackson explores King's ability to connect with the educated and the unlettered, professionals and the working class. In particular, Jackson highlights King's alliances with Jo Ann Robinson, a young English professor at Alabama State University; E. D. Nixon, a middle-aged Pullman porter and head of the local NAACP chapter; and Virginia Durr, a courageous white woman who bailed Rosa Parks out of jail after Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white person. Jackson offers nuanced portrayals of King's relationships with these and other civil rights leaders in the community to illustrate King's development within the community. Drawing on countless interviews and archival sources, Jackson compares King's sermons and religious writings before, during, and after the Montgomery bus boycott. Jackson demonstrates how King's voice and message evolved during his time in Montgomery, reflecting the shared struggles, challenges, experiences, and hopes of the people with whom he worked. Many studies of the civil rights movement end analyses of Montgomery's struggle with the conclusion of the bus boycott and the establishment of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Jackson surveys King's uneasy post-boycott relations with E. D. Nixon and Rosa Parks, shedding new light on Parks's plight in Montgomery after the boycott and revealing the internal discord that threatened the movement's hard-won momentum. The controversies within the Montgomery Improvement Association compelled King to position himself as a national figure who could rise above the quarrels within the movement and focus on attaining its greater goals. Though the Montgomery struggle thrust King into the national spotlight, the local impact on the lives of blacks from all socioeconomic classes was minimal at the time. As the citizens of Montgomery awaited permanent change, King left the city, taking the lessons he learned there onto the national stage. In the crucible of Montgomery, Martin Luther King Jr. was transformed from an inexperienced Baptist preacher into a civil rights leader of profound national importance. Customer Reviews (3)
Montgomery's readiness for King
The Base of the Mountain
A Must Have for the serious collector of books about MLK |
59. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Real People) by Pam Walker | |
Paperback: 24
Pages
(2000-08)
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60. Where Do We Go from Here:Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr. | |
Paperback: 209
Pages
(1968)
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Civil Rights 1967
Martin's last words to America : Is anyone listening ? |
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