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Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 223 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this important work, which has been unavailable for more than ten years, we find King's acute analysis of American race relations and the state of the movement after a decade of civil rights efforts. King lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams...
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
xiii, 193 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dr. King's account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963. Often applauded as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can't Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign...
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xvi, 300 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Every year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. But after more than forty years, few people appreciate how truly radical he was. Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King's revolutionary...
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