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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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the life of the civil rights movement leader. Some people observe the day by singing, reading, or watching movies about him. Others volunteer in their community or make peace-inspired crafts. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests ... He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his 'I've...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
At an early age, Martin Luther King Jr. was unhappy about the unfair laws and customs that made it difficult for African Americans to live freely. Before he reached his teen years, he vowed to do something about them. As an adult, he became a preacher and civil rights leader. He told the world about his dream for racial harmony and peace in the United States. He marched, led boycotts and sit-ins, and made speeches to try to obtain civil rights for...
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Language
English
Description
"Fred D. Gray was just twenty-four years old when he became the defense lawyer for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young minister who had become the face of the bus boycott that had rocked the city of in Montgomery, Alabama. In this incredible history, Gray takes us behind the scenes of that landmark case."--
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Language
English
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...
12) March: Book two
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Series
March volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
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