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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. / edited by Clayborne Carson.

New York : Intellectual Properties Management, Inc. in association with Warner Books, [1998]

©1998

xi, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

First-person account of the extraordinary life of America's greatest civil rights leader. It begins with his boyhood as the son of a preacher, his education as a minister, his ascendancy as a leader of civil rights, & his complex relationships with leading political & social figures of the day.

Early years -- Morehouse College -- Crozer Seminary -- Boston University -- Coretta -- Dexter Avenue Baptist Church -- Montgomery movement begins -- The violence of desperate men -- Desegregation at last -- The expanding struggle -- Birth of a new nation -- Brush with death -- Pilgrimage to nonviolence -- The sit-in movement -- Atlanta arrest and presidential politics -- The Albany movement -- The Birmingham campaign -- Letter from Birmingham Jail -- Freedom now! -- March on Washington -- Death of illusions -- St. Augustine -- The Mississippi challenge -- The Nobel Peace Prize -- Malcolm X -- Selma -- Watts -- Chicago campaign -- Black power -- Beyond Vietnam -- The poor people's campaign -- Unfulfilled dreams.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [371]-390) and index.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

African Americans -- Biography.

Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography.

Baptists -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography.

African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.

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Carson, Clayborne, 1944-

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