Martin Luther King, Jr., had hoped to be a Baptist preacher in a Southern city. Instead, by the time he was assassinated in 1968 at the age of 39, he had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and had led millions of people in a nonviolent movement that shattered forever the Southern system of segregati[...]
When I navigate the currents of the soul, I find myself within my ancestral pool. I find myself swimming in their grief, and the longing during the great event and initiation called the Middle Passage. I find myself in their collective soul journey from a place of homeland to a dream of the Promised[...]
Drawing on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s unpublished writings and other materials housed in Stanford University's archives, a civil rights scholar assembles a continuous first-person narrative of King's life. Read by Levar Burton. Book available.[...]
"Famine, Death, War, and Pestilence: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", the harbingers of Armageddon these are our guides through the Wastelands...From the "Book of Revelations" to "The Road Warrior"; from "A Canticle for Leibowitz" to "The Road", storytellers have long imagined the end of the wo[...]
Themes: Hi-Lo, graphic novels, illustrated, biography. Fast-paced and easy-to-read, these softcover 25-page graphic biographies teach students about historical figures: those who lead us into new territory; pursued scientific discoveries; battled injustice and prejudice; and broke down creative and [...]
This is the first non-themed collection of critically acclaimed author Sarah Monette's best short fiction. To paraphrase Hugo-award winner Elizabeth Bear's introduction: "Monette's prose is lapidary, her ideas are fantastical and chilling. She has studied the craft of fantastic fiction from the pens[...]
"Blueprints Family Medicine, Third Edition" provides students with a complete review of key concepts and topics and serves as a rapid reference during day-to-day activities in patient care - perfect for clerkship rotations and the USMLE. This edition has been completely updated while maintaining its[...]
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DELIVERED his powerful "I Have a Dream" speech on August 28, 1963. Fifty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement. It continues to be heralded as a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality.
This gripping book is rooted in [...]
" In] this slim but powerful book . . . Younge is adept at both distilling the facts and asking blunt questions."--"Boston Globe""Unequivocal."--"Financial Times""Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on the speech's] significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the sc[...]
April 16th. The year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama has had a spring of non-violent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against blacks by the city government and downtown retailers. The organizers longed to create a non-violent tension so severe that[...]
As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's "Between the World and Me" and Claudia Rankine's "Citizen" swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King,[...]
The first collection of King's essential writings for high school students and young people
"A Time to Break Silence" presents Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most important writings and speeches--carefully selected by teachers across a variety of disciplines--in an accessible and user-friendly volume[...]
More than fifty years ago an assassin's bullet robbed us of one of the most eloquent voices for twentieth-century human rights and justice. Drawing on a new generation of scholarship about the civil rights era, To the Promised Land goes beyond the iconic view of King as an advocate of racial harmony[...]
Anthology celebrating the 50th anniversary of Dr Martin Luther King receiving an honorary degree in civil law at Newcastle University in November 1967, six months before his assassination in April 1968.[...]
Martin Luther King left an indelible mark on 20th-century American history through his leadership of the non-violent civil rights campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s. The election of Barack Obama as America's first black president in November 2008 has spawned a renewed interest in King's role as an age[...]
Martin Luther King Jr embraced Gandhi's principles of non-violent resistance and civil disobedience and applied them to challenge the unjust, discriminatory practices employed by a predominantly white society against black people. These principles guided him as he articulated with a persuasive, spel[...]
No issue in america in the 1960s was more vital than civil rights, and no two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in this era than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted journalist David Margolick explores the unto[...]
Martin Luther King Jr. may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. On the fiftieth anniversary of King's assassination, the man and his activism are as close to public consciousness as ever. But despite his stature, the si[...]
Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story is a 16-page comic book about Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and the Montgomery Bus Boycott published in 1957 by the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR USA). It advocates the principles of nonviolence and provides a primer on nonviolent resistance.[...]
Billy Graham & Martin Luther King, illustrated biography.
»En vigtig udgivelse.«
- René Gummer, Weekendavisen
Da Gud tog bussen er en tankevækkende historie om, hvordan man kan ændre verden, hvis bare et enkelt menneske får nok og siger stop. Stedet er Montgomery, Alabama, USA. Tiden er 1955-56. Og manden i centrum e[...]
´I have a dream´
Den karismatiske amerikanske præst og borgerrettighedsforkæmper Martin Luther King satte et uudsletteligt fingeraftryk på sin tid. Gennem hans kampagner fik sorte amerikanere stemmeret, og der blev lyttet til hans taler verden over. Uden King ville Barack Obama formentli[...]
Hans dröm och vår verklighet
Martin Luther King mördades för femtio Ã¥r sedan, i april 1968, men han är en ännu levande legend. Varför? Lars Ã…ke Augustsson tecknar i första delen av sin bok ett konturskarpt porträtt av den amerikanske pastorn och medborgarrättskämpen, av sÃ¥vÃ[...]