Edition |
1st Perennial Classics ed. |
Description |
800 pages ; 21 cm |
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Note |
Originally published: New York : Quill, ©1999. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 725-772) and index. |
Summary |
Publisher's description: Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Based on more than seven hundred interviews with all of King's surviving associates, as well as with those who opposed him, and enhanced by the author's access to King's personal papers and tens of thousands of pages of FBI documents, this is a towering portrait of a man's metamorphosis into a legend. |
Contents |
The Montgomery bus boycott, 1955-1956 -- The Birth of SCLC, 1957-1959 -- SNCC, the Kennedys, and the freedom rides, 1960-1961 -- Albany and lessons for the future, 1961-1962 -- Birmingham and the March on Washington, 1963 -- The Alabama Project, St. Augustine, and the Nobel Peace Prize, 1963-1964 -- Selma and the Voting Rights Act, 1965 -- Chicago and the "War on slums," 1965-1966 -- The Meredith march, "Black Power," and the Chicago open-housing protests, 1966 -- Economic justice and Vietnam, 1966-1967 -- The Poor people's campaign and Memphis, 1967-1968 -- Epilogue. |
Subject |
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference -- History.
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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 (OCoLC)fst00040023
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (OCoLC)fst00580601
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African Americans -- Biography.
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Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
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Baptists -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States -- Race relations.
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African Americans. (OCoLC)fst00799558
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African Americans -- Civil rights.
(OCoLC)fst00799575
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Baptists -- Clergy.
(OCoLC)fst00827290
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Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
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Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
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Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Genre/Form |
Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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ISBN |
0060566922 (pbk.) |
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9780060566920 (pbk.) |
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