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Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. But after more than forty years, few people appreciate how truly radical he was. Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King's revolutionary...
4) MLK FBI
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered today as an American hero: a bridge-builder, a shrewd political tactician, and a moral leader. Yet throughout his history-altering political career, he was often treated by U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies like an enemy of the state. In this virtuosic documentary, award-winning editor and director Sam Pollard (Editor, 4 Little Girls, Mo' Better Blues; Director/Producer, Eyez on The Prize, Sammy...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having led thousands in a march for civil rights to the foot of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. made the most of the historical moment by giving a speech that would forever inspire people to continue to fight for change in the years ahead.
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
c2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., brings his life and the ... nature of his message to young children through his own words"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
35 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Looks at the early life of Martin Luther King, Jr., as seen through the eyes of his older sister.
11) We dream a world
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This episode delves into one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches, Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence, which Dr. King delivered on April 4, 1967. Today this speech is acknowledged to be one of the most powerful ever written by Dr. King and Smiley deconstructs the meaning of the speech, and puts it in a contemporary context, particularly in light of our nation's current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book breaks new ground in two important areas that have yet to be, linked and explored by any JFK-assassination historian. John Koerner argues that the CIA's secret drug trade in Laos, and the president's effort to end it, provided the primary motive that the CIA needed to assassinate the president. A lot of effort has been, made to examine the president's Vietnam policy, but precious little attention has been, paid to the opium trade in Laos...
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the life and achievements of the Baptist pastor who became a driving force behind the African American civil rights movement.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography sheds new light on King’s development as a civil rights leader in Montgomery among activists such as Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, and others.
In Becoming King, Troy Jackson demonstrates how Martin Luther King's early years as a pastor and activist in Montgomery, Alabama, helped shape his identity as a civil rights leader. Using the sharp lens of Montgomery's struggle for racial equality to
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
In the 2018 high-definition program, learn all about Martin Luther King, Jr. as a pioneering force for racial equality and non-violent protest. What were the significant events of MLK's early years? What was MLK's role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott? What was the Birmingham March? What was the March on Washington? What was MLK's role in the Voting Rights Act? What were the events of MLK2s final years and his lasting legacy?
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