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English
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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
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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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...
43) Martin's dream
Author
Series
Publisher
Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
For Black History Month, Ana & Andrew join a research group at the Community Center. They learn many interesting things about Martin Luther King Jr.! Later, with the help of some other children, they make one of Martin's famous dreams come true.
Publisher
Distributed by New Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 69 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
March on!: Martin Luther King Jr.'s sister recalls the day she heard him deliver his I have a dream speech.
Martin's big words: Introduces the ideas and accomplishments of Martin Luther King Jr. using some of his own words.
Rosa: Recounts how Rosa Parks set the events of the civil rights movement in motion by refusing to give up her seat on an Alabama city bus.
Henry's freedom box: A fictionalized story about a young slave who mails himself to...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities...
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?
48) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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AudioFile - Best Audiobooks of 2023
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Best of 2023: Non-Fiction
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: May 15, 2023
Barack Obama's Favorite Books from 2023
Best of 2023: Non-Fiction
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: May 15, 2023
Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
Author
Language
English
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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
Rise
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Designed specifically for preschool comprehension, a board book introduction to the influential civil rights activist and speaker chronicles his early years, religious leadership and history-shaping work to promote equality for all people"--
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the Baptist minister who led the movement to give African Americans civil rights, discussing his childhood, activist works, and legacy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
57 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Coretta Scott King is known for being the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but she was a civil rights activist and leader in her own right! She was a singer and an author too, and her work made a difference for Black Americans and for all women for decades to come"--
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in poetry and prose, this introduction to Coretta Scott King, the wife of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and an important figure in the history of activism and civil rights, shows how she carried on the struggle after his death, preserving his legacy for future generations.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The true story behind the writing of Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, [told in picture book format]"--Provided by publisher.
56) Klandestine: how a Klan lawyer and a checkbook journalist helped James Earl Ray cover up his crime
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Physical Desc
xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This fast-paced history traces the escalating racial violence that led to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and then documents how Klan lawyer Arthur J. Hanes and checkbook journalist William Bradford Huie aided the evolution of James Earl Ray's bogus alibi--Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
"In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Morgan Reynolds Pub
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
128 p. : ill. (some col.), map : 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the voting rights demonstrations held in Selma, Alabama, in 1965, the violence that met the protesters' attempt to march to the state capitol building in Montgomery, and the reforms that occured as a result of their protests.
59) 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...
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