Marching to the mountaintop : how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours

Title
: 
Marching to the mountaintop : how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours

Author
: 
Bausum, Ann author.

ISBN
: 
9781426309397

Edition
: 
1st ed.

Publication Information
: 
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, 2012.

Physical Description
: 
104 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Contents
: 
Foreword -- Introduction -- Death in Memphis -- Strike! -- Impasse -- A war on poverty -- Marching in Memphis -- Last days -- Death in Memphis, reprise -- Overcome -- Afterword -- King's campaigns -- Cast of characters -- Timeline -- Research notes and acknowledgments -- Resource guide.

Reading Level
: 
1200 L Lexile

Personal Subject
: 
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
 
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968-Assassination.

Subject Term
: 
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
 
Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century.
 
African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Geographic Term
: 
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.

Summary
: 
Explores how the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of Dr. King's greatest speeches and for his tragic death on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.


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Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)J 323.092 BAUNonfiction Collection
Valley Library (Lakeland)J 323.092 BAUNonfiction Collection