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Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2013
Description
By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates's prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King, Jr. This brilliant examination of the great civil rights icon and the movement he led provides a lasting portrait of a man whose dream shaped American history
Author
Publisher
Fortress
Pub. Date
2010
Description
"In these short meditative and sermonic pieces, some of them composed in jails and all of them crafted during the tumultuous years of the Civil Rights struggle, Dr. King articulated and espoused in a deeply personal compelling way his commitment to justice and to the intellectual, moral, and spiritual conversion that makes his work as much a blueprint today for Christian discipleship as it was then" from Amazon.com.
8) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Forty years after Martin Luther King's assassination, newsman Tom Brokaw, takes viewers through the extraordinary life and times of America's civil rights visionary. Go beyond the legend to portray the man, the questions, the myths, and the relevance of Dr. King's message in today's world.
Pub. Date
2020
Description
Behind the Movement brings to life the events leading up to the historical Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. Rosa Parks, a seamstress who was also secretary for her NAACP chapter and a voter registration activist, refuses to relinquish her bus seat to a white man on December 1, 1955. Her arrest is the spark that brings together the African American community in Alabama.
Publisher
The History Channel
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Depending on whom you ask, the sixties was all about love, civil rights, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, decadence, repression, or something else completely. It was many things to many people, and was, unquestionably, a turning point in our national experience."
Publisher
The History Channel
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
"Depending on whom you ask, the sixties was all about love, civil rights, the Cold War, the Vietnam War, decadence, repression, or something else completely. It was many things to many people, and was, unquestionably, a turning point in our national experience."
Author
Publisher
Warner Books/Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
1998
Description
He was a husband, a father, a preacher-and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the twentieth century's most influential men and lived one of its most extraordinary lives. Now, in a special volume commissioned and authorized by his family, here is the life and times of Martin Luther King, Jr., drawn from a comprehensive collection of writings, recordings, and documentary...
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