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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Martin Luther King |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Fairclough |
ISBN: | 0820308986 9780820308982 0820309389 9780820309385 0820323462 9780820323466 |
OCLC Number: | 13703256 |
Description: | x, 504 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The preachers and the people : the origins of SCLC -- The fallow years : 1957-1959 -- Sit-ins and freedom rides -- First battle : the Albany campaign -- Breakthrough at Birmingham -- Summer of discontent, autumn of tragedy -- Desegregation : keeping up the pressure -- All the way with LBJ -- Selma -- The crisis of victory -- Defeat in Chicago -- "Black power!" -- The politics of peace -- Mobilizing the poor -- The Abernathy years. |
Responsibility: | Adam Fairclough. |
Abstract:
This work looks beyond the towering figure of Martin Luther King, Jr, to disclose the workings of the organization that supported him. It shows how Julian Bond, Jesse Jackson, Wyatt Walker, and others played a hand in the triumphs of Selma and Birmingham and the frustrations of Albany and Chicago.
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Splendidly researched, cogently articulated...May well represent the finest single piece of published scholarship on the American Civil Rights Movement. - Choice
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