The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Clayborne Carson Clayborne Carson (born June 15, 1944) is a professor of history at Stanford University and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Since 1985, he has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the , ed. 1998. Read by LeVar Burton Levardis Robert Martyn Burton Jr. (born February 16, 1957, in Landstuhl, West Germany), professionally known as LeVar Burton, is an actor, director and author who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award winning television miniseries Roots . Original recordings of Martin Luther King, Jr. 8 cds. 9 hrs. Warner Audiobooks. 1-59483-101-7 $39.98. Cardboard; content notes. SA* One of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s students, Clayborne Carson, capably assembled this collection of King's writings and activities. This book describes the epochal ep·och·al adj. 1. Of or characteristic of an epoch. 2. a. Highly significant or important; momentous: epochal decisions made by Roosevelt and Churchill. b. struggles of that era: the Montgomery bus boycott The Montgomery bus boycott was a mass protest by African American citizens in the city of Montgomery, Alabama, against Segregation policies on the city's public buses. It was nine years before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would change the nation forever. ; the Selma to Montgomery march; the marches in Washington; the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis that cost King his life. It describes King's deep commitment to nonviolence, while making clear that the purpose of nonviolence was not to put on a good show, but to win equality and opportunity for all Americans. In fact, King pursued nonviolence not only because it fitted his nature, but also because he believed that it was more effective than violence. King also saw, and articulated, the necessity of peace and economic justice. One of the more chilling parts of the book is the way he described renting a filthy, rat-infested apartment in Chicago and moving his family there in an effort to confront racism in the North. After only a few months of living in this physical squalor squal·or n. A filthy and wretched condition or quality. [Latin squ  lor, from squ , in a neighborhood
offering nothing for the children, he noticed upsetting behavioral
changes in all of his children.
This collection shows the power and force of many of his ideas and the brilliant clarity of his thinking. King believed that America could really be a land of equality and opportunity, and he had the eloquence Eloquence Ambrose, St. bees, prophetic of fluency, landed in his mouth. [Christian Hagiog: Brewster, 177] Antony, Mark gives famous speech against Caesar’s assassins. [Br. Lit. , vision and courage to articulate this. Burton's reading is eloquent. Many of the speeches are the original recordings of King's sermons and speeches. This also contains a full-length reading of his seminal "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." The musical interludes add to the sense of the promise and excitement of this period. Susan Offner, Teacher, Lexington HS, Lexington, MA S--Recommended for senior high school students. A--Recommended for advanced students and adults. This code will help librarians and teachers working in high schools where there are honors and advanced placement students. This also will help extend KLIATT's usefulness in public libraries. *--The asterisk (1) See Asterisk PBX. (2) In programming, the asterisk or "star" symbol (*) means multiplication. For example, 10 * 7 means 10 multiplied by 7. The * is also a key on computer keypads for entering expressions using multiplication. highlights exceptional books. |
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