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As we celebrate the legacy and remember his impact, check out these resources on the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
James L Swanson · Scholastic Press
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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In his meteoric, thirteen-year rise to fame, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. led a mass movement for Civil Rights -- with his relentless peaceful, non-violent protests, public demonstrations, and eloquent speeches. But as violent threats cast a dark shadow over Dr. King's life, Swanson hones... |
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Like a Fading Shadow: A Novel
ANTONIO MUOZ MOLINA · Picador
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
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A hypnotic novel intertwining the author's past with James Earl Ray's attempt to escape after shooting Martin Luther King Jr.The year is 1968 and James Earl Ray has just shot Martin Luther King Jr. For two months he evades authorities, driving to Canada, securing a fake passport,... |
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Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor, and the Battle over Civil Rights
Steven Levingston · Hachette Books
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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From journalist and author Steven Levingston, a gripping, detailed account of the contentious relationship between President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. during the tumultuous early years of the Civil Rights movement.
Kennedy and King traces the emergence... |
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Dear Martin
Nic Stone · Ember
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
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"Powerful, wrenching." -JOHN GREEN, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Turtles All the Way Down
"Raw and gripping." -JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys
"A must-read!" -ANGIE... |
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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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Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Year
David Ritz · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
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A revealing and dramatic chronicle of the twelve months leading up to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New... |
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Black Prophetic Fire
Cornel West · Beacon Press
Format: Hardcover
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An unflinching look at nineteenth- and twentieth-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies In an accessible conversational format Cornel West with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders Frederick... |
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Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Clayborne Carson · Palgrave Macmillan Trade
Format: Print book
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On August 28, 1963 hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation's capital for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. It was Clayborne Carson's first demonstration. A nineteen... |
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The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
Taylor Branch · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover
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Taylor Branch, author of the acclaimed America in the King Years, introduces selections from the trilogy in clear context and gripping detail. The King Years delivers riveting tales of everyday heroes who achieved miracles in constructive purpose and yet poignantly fell short. Here is the full... |
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The March : The Story of the Greatest March in American History
~ March · Pbs (Direct)
Format: DVD
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Witness the compelling and dramatic story of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech. This watershed event in the Civil Rights Movement helped change the face of America. Recounts the events when 250,000 people came... |
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I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
Arthur Flowers · Groundwood Books; Revised Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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This stunning graphic novel biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. describes the apartheid South of his time, which in many ways was not very different from the early days of slavery. Included are descriptions of the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the formation of civil rights groups, mass movements... |
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Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King
Edythe Scott Bagley · University Alabama Press; 1st Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4Desert Rose details Coretta Scott King's upbringing in a family of proud, land-owning African Americans with a profound devotion to the ideals of social equality and the values of education, as well... |
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Strength to Love
Martin Luther King Jr · Fortress Press; Gift edition
Format: Paperback
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"If there is one book Martin Luther King, Jr. has written that people consistently tell me has changed their lives, it is Strength to Love." So wrote Coretta Scott King. She continued: "I believe it is because this book best explains the central element of Martin Luther King,... |
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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America
Michael Eric Dyson · Basic Civitas Books; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King—the prophet for racial and economic justice in America—ended his final speech with the words, “I may not get there... |
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What Would Martin Say?
Clarence B. Jones · Harper
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
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On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, depriving the world of one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. He was thirty-nine. King had achieved so much at such a young age that... |
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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
Michael K. Honey · W. W. Norton & Company
Pages: 640
Format: Hardcover
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The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade.Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions, abusive white supervisors,... |
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