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The celebrated civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered for his 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. This documentary includes rare footage of lectures by and interviews with Dr. King.

Pages: 220, Paperback, Wind Publications

Overview Details Author Info Book Excerpt Customer Reviews In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors. Workers sought union protection, higher wages, improved safety, and the integration of their work force. Their work stoppage became a part of the larger civil rights movement and drew an impressive array of national movement leaders to Memphis, including...

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ISBN-10: 0809063492 ISBN-13: 9780809063499. Edition: .

ISBN13: 9780809063499. ISBN10: 0809063492. by Harvard Sitkoff. Published by MPS. Edition: 07

Once in while you find a book that not only affirms your walk with the Lord but helps you connect with the Christian heritage, embracing the now and looking toward the future. Dr Carl Forster has done just that in his book. Reading this book is like having this skilled teacher sitting before you providing the opportunity to learn and glean from the life truths that come from "The Sermon On The Mount." Carl invites the reader to join him on a spiritual journey. If you accept his invitation, be prepared...

Pages: 208, Hardcover, Flash Point

ISBN-10: 0060750545 ISBN-13: 9780060750541. Edition: Reprint.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, Nobel Peace Prize winner, is one of the 20th century's most enduring figures. He advocated and practiced civil disobedience and non-violence. He said, "Christ gave us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics." He rose to national prominence during the epic Montgomery bus boycott and then went on to spearhead a movement which ended juridical apartheid in the U.S.

On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded the grounds of the Capitol to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. Among the masses was Charlayne Hunter-Gault. She had flown from South Africa for the occasion, to witness what was for many the culmination of the long struggle for civil rights in the United States.

Author Bios Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of the novels "In Country" "Spence+Lila', & "Feather Crowns", which was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award & won the Southern Book Award. Her short-story collection "Shiloh & Other Stories" won the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Fiction & was nominated for other major prizes. Her memoir, "Clear Springs", was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize. Her fiction has appeared in "The New Yorker", "The Atlantic Monthly", & elsewhere...

In a striking departure from earlier books on Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement, Burns focuses on King's biblical faith and spiritual vision as fundamental to his political leadership and shows how these threads wove together a "single garment of destiny," making King the most important social prophet of the twentieth century. King is not portrayed as a lone exalted hero, but as the heart of a fabric of principled leadership that stretched from his closest colleagues to the movement...

On January 20, 2009, 1.8 million people crowded the grounds of the Capitol to witness the inauguration of Barack Obama. Among the masses was Charlayne Hunter-Gault. She had flown from South Africa for the occasion, to witness what was for many the culmination of the long struggle for civil rights in the United States. In this compelling personal history, she uses the event to look back on her own involvement in the civil rights movement, as one of two black students who forced the University of Georgia...

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