The Domestication Of Martin Luther King Jr

Author : Lewis V. Baldwin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1621897435
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr. written by Lewis V. Baldwin and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarence B. Jones, close King advisor and draft speechwriter, has done much to reinforce a conservative hijacking of King's image with the publication of his controversial books What Would Martin Say? (2008) and Behind the Dream (2011). King emerges from Jones's books not as a prophetic radical who attacked systemic racial injustice, economic exploitation, and wars of aggression, but as a fiercely conservative figure who would oppose affirmative action and illegal immigration. The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr. offers a critique of Jones's work and the larger effort on the part of right-wing conservatives to make King a useful symbol, or the sacred aura, in a protracted campaign to promote their own agenda for America. This work establishes the need to rethink King's legacy of ideas and activism and its importance for our society and culture.

Author : John A. Kirk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317876504
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Luther King Jr. written by John A. Kirk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining the latest insights from KIng biographies and movement histories, this book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the relationship between King and the wider civil rights movement. Delivering a fresh perspective on the relationship between 'the man and the movement', Kirk argues that it is the interactionbetween national and local movement concerns that is essential to understanding King's leadership and black activism in the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk examines King's strengths and his limitations, and weighs the role that king played in then movement alongside the contributions of other civil rights organizations and leaders, and local civil rights activists. Suitable for undergraduate courses in 20th century US history.

Author : Michael A. Schuman
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0766061493
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. written by Michael A. Schuman and published by Enslow Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-09 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream..." These now famous words were spoken by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during the March on Washington in 1963. The many historic milestones of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, life are examined in this informative biography. Examining the civil rights leader's life from his birth in Atlanta, winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the march to Selma, his "I Have a Dream" speech, and his assassination. This book is developed from MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: LEADER FOR CIVIL RIGHTS to allow republication of the original text into ebook, paperback, and trade editions.

Author : Jacqueline Conciatore Senter
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1502631172
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Luther King Jr. written by Jacqueline Conciatore Senter and published by Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few have left as lasting of a mark on the world as Martin Luther King Jr. An orator, minister, organizer, activist, and leader, King's focus on effecting change peacefully shaped everything he did. This book outlines the beliefs and influences that guided King as he helped lead the Civil Rights movement, provides information about the prejudice and racism he fought, and demonstrates his continued impact today.

Author : Herb Boyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Luther King, Jr written by Herb Boyd and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Della Rowland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Luther King, Jr written by Della Rowland and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the Nobel Peace Prize winner who showed us that a struggle can be waged without violence.

Author : Thomas Siebold
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Luther King, Jr written by Thomas Siebold and published by Greenhaven Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2000 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fulfills the standard: "Individuals, Groups, and Institutions" from the National Council for the Social Studies Curriculum Standards for High SchoolFulfills the standards: "Historical Comprehension," "Historical Research Capabilities," and "Historical Issues-Analysis and Decision Making" from the National History Education Standards for United States History, Grades 5-12.

Author : Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451527530
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why We Can't Wait written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther King’s classic exploration of the events and forces behind the Civil Rights Movement—including his Letter from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963. “There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair.” In 1963, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States. The campaign launched by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Civil Rights movement on the segregated streets of Birmingham demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. In this remarkable book—winner of the Nobel Peace Prize—Dr. King recounts the story of Birmingham in vivid detail, tracing the history of the struggle for civil rights back to its beginnings three centuries ago and looking to the future, assessing the work to be done beyond Birmingham to bring about full equality for African Americans. Above all, Dr. King offers an eloquent and penetrating analysis of the events and pressures that propelled the Civil Rights movement from lunch counter sit-ins and prayer marches to the forefront of American consciousness. Since its publication in the 1960s, Why We Can’t Wait has become an indisputable classic. Now, more than ever, it is an enduring testament to the wise and courageous vision of Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes photographs and an Afterword by Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.

Author : John J. Ansbro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780883443460
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Martin Luther King, Jr. written by John J. Ansbro and published by . This book was released on 1984-06 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on King's papers and interviews with his associates, Martin Luther King, Jr. examines his contribution as a philosopher and theologian to issues of racial and social justice, and his drive to eradicate oppression through the doctrine of nonviolence.

Author : Lewis V. Baldwin
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1506484778
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Arc of Truth written by Lewis V. Baldwin and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther King Jr. said and wrote as much or more about the meaning, nature, and power of truth as any other prominent figure in the 1950s and '60s. King was not only vastly influential as an advocate for and defender of truth; he also did more than anyone in his time to organize truth into a movement for the liberation, uplift, and empowerment of humanity, efforts that ultimately resulted in the loss of his life. Drawing on King's published and unpublished sermons, speeches, and writings, The Arc of Truth explores King's lifelong pilgrimage in pursuit of truth. Lewis Baldwin explores King's quest for truth from his inquisitive childhood to the influence of family and church, to Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, Boston University, and other academic institutions in the Northeast. Continuing on, the book follows King's sense that he was involved in experiments of truth within the context of the struggle to liberate and empower humanity, to his understanding of the civil rights movement as unfolding truth, to his persistent challenge to America around its need to engage in a serious reckoning with truth regarding its history and heritage. Baldwin investigates King's determination to speak truth to power, and his untiring efforts to actualize what he envisioned as the truthful ends of the beloved community through the truthful means of nonviolent direct action. King believed, taught, and demonstrated by example that truth derives from a revolution in the heart, mind, and soul before it can be translated into institutions and structures that guarantee freedom, justice, human dignity, equality of opportunity, and peace. Ultimately, King's significance for humanity cannot be considered only his contributions as a preacher, pastor, civil rights leader, and world figure--he was and remains equally impactful as a theologian, philosopher, and ethicist whose life and thought evince an enduring search for and commitment to truth.