Four days later, on December 5, African Americans began a bus boycott after an
evening rally was held. The black community unanimously elected the Reverend Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr., as the first president ...

An account of the African-American leader's life explores his personal struggles to bring social justice and equality to his people through peaceful means. Reissue.

In direct, punchy writing, Bray makes understandable the broadening of King's political work to include his antiwar activity and his war on poverty....Zeldis's folk art, gouache primitives, are bright eye-catchers.

A collection of sermons by this martyred Black American leader which explains his convictions in terms of the conditions and problems of contemporary society

Collects the civil rights leader's writings on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, and more

Fifty years after the Montgomery bus boycott, which launched KingAs movement leadership, this book moves beyond the all-too-often oversimplified story of KingAs life and times to provide an innovative analytical framework for understanding ...

Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegregated city bus service.

This book details and examines the story of King's life and the events leading up to his assassination in 1968; slavery in the USA until its abolition in 1865; the struggle to win economic and political rights for the black people of the ...

Martin Luther King (19291968) was born in Atlanta.

A biography, emphasizing the early years, of the civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.