Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours
Title
:
Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.'s last 31 hours
Author
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Rosenbloom, Joseph, 1944- author.
ISBN
:
9780807083383
Physical Description
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x, 204 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents
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Atlanta departure -- Detour -- The strike -- Airport arrival -- The invitation -- The Mayor -- Lorraine check-in -- Damage control -- The injunction -- Invaders -- Nine-to-five security -- Reluctant speaker -- The stalker -- Summoning Dr. King -- From the mountaintop -- Long night -- Home pressures -- Invaders' exit -- Melancholy afternoon -- Ray's lucky breaks -- Dark night -- Redemption.
Personal Subject
:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968-Assassination.
Subject Term
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African Americans -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.
Baptists -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Genre
:
Biographies
Summary
:
On April 3, 1968, arriving in Memphis, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was being denounced as an agent of violence. He was facing dissent within the civil rights movement, among his own staff. A federal court injunction barred him from marching. Threats mounted; he feared an imminent, violent death. That night, King gathered the strength to speak at a rally on behalf of sanitation workers. Rosenbloom recounts the pressures that were bedeviling King, and shows how a series of extraordinary breaks enabled James Earl Ray to construct a sniper's nest and shoot King.
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | 921 KING | Nonfiction Collection |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | 921 KING | Nonfiction Collection |
Valley Library (Lakeland) | 921 KING | Nonfiction Collection |
Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi) | 921 KING | Nonfiction Collection |