The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia

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Clayborne Carson, Tenisha Armstrong, Susan Carson, Erin Cook, Susan Englander

Book Code: GR9440

ISBN: 0-313-29440-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29440-2

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456 pages, photos

Greenwood Press

Publication: 1/30/2008

List Price: $65.00 (UK Sterling Price: £37.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 7 x 10

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[O]ffers scholars, students, and interested non-specialists more than 280 alphabetical entries on his life and the civil rights movement in general.
—Library Media Connection April/May 2008

Description: As editor of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Dr. Clayborne Carson, with the assistance of his staff at Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute, had access to many documents relating to Dr. King's life and career. From their unique familiarity with these materials, they have compiled an encyclopedia offering a fresh and exciting look at the work of Dr. King and the course of the civil rights movement. Scholars, students, and interested nonspecialists will all find the more than 280 entries provided in the encyclopedia to be both informative and engaging. Alphabetically arranged, each entry concludes with a list of sources, both primary and secondary, upon which it is based. The entries cover all facets of Dr. King's life and career, including the following members of his family:

his wife, Coretta Scott King

his father, Martin Luther King, Sr.

his mother, Alberta Williams King

his brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King

and all four of his children
His many friends and associates in the movement:

Ralph David Abernathy

Maya Angelou

Sammy Davis Jr.

Medgar Evers

Dick Gregory

Benjamin Hooks

James Meredith

Andrew Young
His campaigns and marches:

Birmingham Campaign

Chicago Campaign

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike

Mongomery Bus Boycott

Operation Breadbasket
And the many organizations he led or interacted with:

Congress of Racial Equality

Montgomery Improvement Association

National Conference on Religion and Race

Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Other entries discuss the churches he pastored, the dissertation he wrote, the trips he took to India and Ghana, the books he published, the speeches he delivered, the Nobel Prize he won, the presidents and other national figures he knew, and his chief opponents and critics. The encyclopedia also offers a detailed chronology of Dr. King's life, a selected bibliography of important seconday sources, and a detailed Introduction putting Dr. King's career in context with its times, a Guide to Related Topics, and a detailed subject index.

LC Card Number: 2007035354

LCC Class: E185

Dewey Class: 323

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