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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Legacy of a dream is a 24 minute film that uses selected footage from the 180 minute Academy Award nominated documentary "King: a filmed record; Montgomery to Memphis" to present a shorter account of Dr. King's non-violent campaign for civil rights and social justice. It uses only original newsreel and other primary material, unvarnished and unretouched, and covers the period from the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 through his assassination in 1968....
2) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
At the river I stand: the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike and the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Memphis, Spring 1968 marked the dramatic climax of the Civil Rights movement. At the River I Stand skillfully reconstructs the two eventful months that transformed a strike by Memphis sanitation worker into a national conflagration, and disentangles the complex historical forces that came together with the inevitability of tragedy at the...
Author
Series
America in the King years volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
[1988]
Language
English
11) King: a life
Author
Language
English
Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...
14) Selma
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
15) Coretta Scott
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Martin Luther King's wife, Coretta, who in her own right, was a civil rights pioneer who experienced the injustices of the segregated South and who continued her husband's mission after his assassination.
Publisher
Kino Lorber Edu
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Constructed from a wealth of archival footage, King: a filmed record ... Montgomery to Memphis is a monumental documentary that follows Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955 to 1968, in his rise from regional activist to world-renowned leader of the Civil Rights movement. Rare footage of King's speeches, protests, and arrests are interspersed with scenes of other high-profile supporters and opponents of the cause, punctuated by heartfelt testimonials...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo-that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd-he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the campaign...
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