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1) Dear Martin
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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.
Author
Language
English
Description
Against the backdrop of the resulting nationwide riots and the pathos of King's funeral, Sides gives us a cross-cut narrative of the assassin's flight and the 65-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England -- a massive manhunt ironically led by Hoover's FBI. Drawing on previously unpublished material, this nonfiction thriller illuminates how history is so often a matter of the petty bringing down the great.
Author
Series
Cotton Malone novels volume 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
History notes that the ugly feud between J. Edgar Hoover and Martin Luther King, Jr., marked by years of illegal surveillance and the accumulation of secret files, ended on April 4, 1968 when King was assassinated by James Earl Ray. But that may not have been the case. Now, fifty years later, former Justice Department agent, Cotton Malone, must reckon with the truth of what really happened that fateful day in Memphis. It all turns on an incident from...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, the award-winning Pinkney duo celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr.'s nonviolent struggle for civil rights as he transforms America through the spirit of love.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life Martin Luther King, Jr. Including how he organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and African American people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xxxiv, 728 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
William Pepper was James Earl Ray’s lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray’s conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Ray’s innocence. This myth-shattering expose is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Pepper’s original best-selling and critically-acclaimed book of the same name, with twenty-six years of additional research included. The result reveals dramatic new...
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
[34] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, explaining his work to bring about a peaceful end to segregation.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
x, 276 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther King, Jr. died in one of the most shocking assassinations the world has known, but little is remembered about the life he led in his final year. New York Times bestselling author and award-winning broadcaster Tavis Smiley recounts the final 365 days of King's life, revealing the minister's trials and tribulations -- denunciations by the press, rejection from the president, dismissal by the country's black middle class and militants,...
Author
Publisher
EDC Publishing
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
62, [2] p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther King Jr. never expected to be a leader. All he wanted was for black people like him to be treated fairly in America. But what began as a small protest soon became a revolution...
Author
Series
America in the King years volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1988
Physical Desc
xii, 1064 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the civil rights struggle from the twilight of the Eisenhower years through the assassination of President Kennedy.
Author
Publisher
Parallax Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
207 pages
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"An examination of the friendship between two monumental peace activists, with an emphasis on their shared social, political, and spiritual visions despite differing religious backgrounds"--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A look at the lives of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and how they were led to seek revolution through peace"--
16) Selma
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatizes the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches.
17) Martin's dream
Author
Series
Publisher
Ready to read/Aladdin
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time, long overdue, for all men to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. Kings words in language even the youngest reader can understand.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests ... He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his 'I've...
20) I have a dream
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On August 28, 1963, Dr. King delivered a speech that moved and inspired America.
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