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1) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally troubled human being who demanded peaceful protest for his...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case. Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis. It all turns on an incident from...
Author
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys--but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of the time, and a blow-by-blow examination of the assassination and its aftermath" --
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
730L
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning.
8) Selma
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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.
10) Dear Martin
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Physical Desc
210 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
20244.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The granddaughter of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King delivers a stirring tribute to her grandparents that speaks to children everywhere about her hopes for a new future"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Kennedy and King traces the emergence of two of the twentieth century's greatest leaders, their powerful impact on each other and on the shape of the civil rights battle between 1960 and 1963. These two men from starkly different worlds profoundly influenced each other's personal development. Kennedy's hesitation on civil rights spurred King to greater acts of courage, and King inspired Kennedy to finally make a moral commitment to equality. As America...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students...
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 286 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther King Jr. was a cautious 19-year-old rookie preacher when he left Atlanta, Georgia, to attend seminary up north. Immediately at Crozer Theological Seminary, King, or "ML" back then, found that he was surrounded by a white staff and white professors. Even his dorm room had once been used by wounded Confederate soldiers during the Civil War. His fellow seminarians were almost all older: soldiers who had fought in World War II, pacifists...
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2011].
Lexile measure
480L
Physical Desc
24 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 'Martin Luther King, Jr. Day,' children learn about who Martin Luther King, Jr. was, what he accomplished, and how people honor his memory." -- Page [4] of cover.