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King

A Life

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A biography of Martin Luther King Jr.

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Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
669

Subjects

African Americans Biographies Civil rights movements history Race relations

People

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

Places

United States

Times

20th century
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First Sentence

"On December 5, 1955, a young Black man became of America's founding fathers."

Table of Contents

Prologue
Page 3
Part I
1. The Kings of Stockbridge
Page 9
2. Martin Luther
Page 17
3. Sweet Auburn
Page 25
4. “Black America Still Wears Chains”
Page 42
5. The Open Curtain
Page 53
6. “A Sense of Responsibility”
Page 65
7. The Seminarian
Page 74
8. “Madly, Madly in Love”
Page 81
9. The Match
Page 88
10. The Dynamic Force
Page 101
11. Plagiarism and Poetry
Page 107
12. Gideon’s Army
Page 113
13. “A Precipitation Factor”
Page 123
14. “My Soul Is Free”
Page 139
15. “We Ain’t Rabbit No More”
Page 148
16. A Warning
Page 159
Part II
17. Alabama’s Moses
Page 177
18. “I’m Glad You Didn’t Sneeze”
Page 195
19. The Pilgrimage
Page 208
20. Leaving Montgomery
Page 217
21. “Kennedy to the Rescue!”
Page 234
22. The New Emancipation Proclamation
Page 252
23. Temptation and Surveillance
Page 270
24. “The Stuff Is Just in ’Em”
Page 279
25. Birmingham Jail
Page 293
Part III
26. The Dream, Part One
Page 313
27. The Dream, Part Two
Page 328
28. “The Most Dangerous Negro”
Page 340
29. Man of the Year
Page 351
30. A Law Observance Problem
Page 366
31. The Prize
Page 385
32. The Director
Page 392
33. A New Sense of “Some-bodiness”
Page 400
34. Crowbar
Page 404
35. Selma
Page 426
26. “The True Meaning of My Work”
Page 439
37. “A Shining Moment”
Page 447
38. Burning
Page 458
39. Beware the Day
Page 467
40. Chicago
Page 475
41. Black Power
Page 485
42. “I Hope King Gets It”
Page 497
43. “Not an Easy Time for Me”
Page 507
44. A Revolution of Values
Page 522
45. Please Come to Memphis
Page 531
Epilogue
Page 553
Notes
Page 559
Acknowledgments: Beloved Community
Page 633
Index
Page 643

Edition Notes

Published in
New York, USA
Copyright Date
2023

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
323.092
Library of Congress
E185.97 K5 E44 2023

The Physical Object

Format
hardcover
Pagination
669p
Number of pages
669
Weight
1032 grams

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL39750492M
ISBN 13
9780374279295

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL27808324W

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