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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King - Intellectual Properties Management in association with Warner Books
Format: Print book
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First-person account of the extraordinary life of America's greatest civil rights leader. It begins with his boyhood as the son of a preacher, his education as a minister, his ascendancy as a leader of civil rights, & his complex relationships with leading political & social... |
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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
Joseph Rosenbloom - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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An "immersive, humanizing, and demystifying" (Charles Blow, New York Times) look at the final hours of Dr. King's life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King,... |
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
Martin Luther King Jr. - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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Martin Luther King, Jr.'s account of the first successful large-scale application of nonviolence resistance in America is comprehensive, revelatory, and intimate. King described his book as "the chronicle of fifty thousand Negroes who took to heart the principles of nonviolence,... |
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
Coretta Scott King - Holt, Henry & Company, Inc.
Format: Print book
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The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017The New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceUSA Today, "New and Noteworthy""This book is distinctly Coretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."... |
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I Am Not Your Negro
Hubert Gendebien, Raoul Peck, Ives Swennen - Magnolia Home Entertainment
Format: DVD
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Master filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished, Remember This House. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin's original words and flood of rich archival material. I Am Not Your Negro is a journey into black history... |
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Selma
David Oyelowo - Paramount
Format: DVD
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SELMA is the story of a movement. The film chronicles the tumultuous three-month period in 1965, when Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. led a dangerous campaign to secure equal voting rights in the face of violent opposition. The epic march from Selma to Montgomery culminated in President Johnson... |
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Who was Martin Luther King, Jr
Bonnie Bader - Penguin Workshop; Illustrated edition
Format: Paperback
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The story of one of the most influential civil rights activist of our time. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right... |
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The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.
Johnny Ray Moore - Candy Cane Pr
Format: Board book
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This little boardbook uses only approximately 200 words to tell about the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. and to explain, in simple terms, how he ended segegation in America |
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Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy
SHERYLL CASHIN - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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How interracial love and marriage changed history, and may soon alter the landscape of American politics.Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime:... |
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Julian Bond's Time to Teach: A History of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
Julian Bond
Format: Hardcover
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Horace "Julian" Bond was an influential social justice activist, politician, and visionary who is best known as one of the founders of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) . For over two decades, he taught a popular class at the University of Virginia on the history... |
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Insurrection: Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
Hawa Allan - W. W. Norton & Company
Format: Hardcover
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A brilliant debut by lawyer and critic Hawa Allan on the paradoxical state of black citizenship in the United States.The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion,... |
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The Radical King
Cornel West - Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing collection that restores Dr. King as being every bit as radical as Malcolm XThe radical King was a democratic socialist who sided with poor and working people in the class struggle taking place in capitalist societies. . . . The response of the radical King to our catastrophic... |
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Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover
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A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind.The abolition of slavery... |
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In Search of Our Roots: How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
Henry Louis Gates Jr. - Crown Publishers
Format: Print book
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Unlike most white Americans who, if they are so inclined, can search their ancestral records, identifying who among their forebears was the first to set foot on this country's shores, most African Americans, in tracing their family's past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles.... |
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His Truth Is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
Jon Meacham - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Soul of America John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched... |
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