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Martin Luther King, Jr. - A Biography (Hardcover)
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Martin Luther King, Jr. - A Biography (Hardcover)
Series: Greenwood Biographies
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There has been recent controversy in the African American community
about youth and their lack of appreciation for the gains of the
civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This stellar
biography is a superb introduction to the foremost leader of the
civil rights movement. The story and historical context will be
eye-opening for students and a good refresher for others who are
too young to have remembered the events. In a gripping narrative
style, the biography traces the young Martin, the son and grandson
of formidable preachers, to his calling as a minister too, but one
who would take on the entrenched racism of the South, and North,
through a nonviolent movement that changed the course of American
history. There has been recent controversy in the African American
community about youth and their lack of appreciation for the gains
of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This stellar
biography is a superb introduction to the foremost leader of the
civil rights movement. The story and historical context will be
eye-opening for students and a good refresher for others who are
too young to have remembered the events. In a gripping narrative
style, the biography traces the young Martin, the son and grandson
of formidable preachers, to his calling as a minister too, but one
who would take on the entrenched racism of the South, and North,
through a nonviolent movement that changed the course of American
history. King's story is compelling, starting from his early
nurtured family life in an insular community of blacks in Atlanta.
His education at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary,
and Boston University and courtship of Coretta Scott lead into the
early days of the civil rights movement and King's leadership role
in the major marches, demonstrations, boycotts, and sit-ins that
took place, mainly in the South. Critical insight into the Kennedy
and Johnson Administrations is given as King negotiates with the
presidents for equal rights for blacks. The violent reactions
against and hatred of many whites for those seeking racial justice
are still shocking today. Against the backdrop of beatings,
killings, bombings, threats, and imprisoning, King is portrayed as
driven to lift up all Americans, even if it meant martyrdom.
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