Marching to the mountaintop, how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours, Ann Bausum ; with a foreword byJames Lawson
Type
Label
Marching to the mountaintop, how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours, Ann Bausum ; with a foreword byJames Lawson
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 98-102), discography (p. 100), filmography (p. 100), and index
resource.biographical
contains biographical information
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
resource.interestGradeLevel
5-8, Follett Library Resources
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Marching to the mountaintop
Nature of contents
discographiesbibliographyfilmographies
resource.readingGradeLevel
7.7
resource.references
School Library Journal starred, March 2012Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books starre, March 2012Booklist, February 2011Kirkus Review, December 2011
Responsibility statement
Ann Bausum ; with a foreword byJames Lawson
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader, MG+, 8.9, 4, 4, 148836
Sub title
how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours
Summary
Examines the link between the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., discussing how the strike, the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and the labor protests all laid the foundations for what many consider to be King's greatest speech, given just days before he was killed, and how that speech and King's death influenced the end of the strikeThis book explores how the media, politics, the Civil Rights Movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches and his tragic death
Table Of Contents
Death in Memphis -- Strike! -- Impasse -- A war on poverty -- Marching in Memphis -- Last days -- Death in Memphis, reprise -- Overcome
Target audience
pre adolescent
Classification
Creator
Subject
- Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination -- Juvenile literature
- Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 -- Juvenile literature
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Content
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- Subject12
- Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination -- Juvenile literature
- Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 -- Juvenile literature
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
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