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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

48 reviews
Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson

Grand Central Publishing, 2001

Required reading!
Martin Luther King, Jr., is without a doubt one of the most influential and pivotal figures in twentieth-century history. In addition to his work as a Civil Rights leader, his role as a father and pastor, he also was an extensively published writer. However, he never had the chance to write an autobiography in the traditional sense. We as readers in the present day and the future have lost the ...

The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom ...

4 reviews
D. Clar

Penguin (Non-Classics), 1991

A valued companion to the study of the Civil Rights Movement
I think that this book is a valued companion to Taylor Branch's epic work "Parting the Waters". Together, they make an unbeatable pair of study aids for one of America's most turbulent periods. While P.T.W. is a more dispassionate third person chronicle, E.O.T.P. is more personally driven. It brings to life individuals like Bayard Rustin, Stokley Carmichael, John Lewis and other giants ...

African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Volume II
Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, ...

Longman, 2004

Reporting Civil Rights, Part One: American Journalism 1941-1963 (Library of America)

2 reviews

Library of America, 2003

A Priceless Documentary of America's Civil Rights Struggle
America's largest, most continuous, and most pressing domestic issue has been the treatment it has accorded black Americans. Similarly, the most important and valuable social movement in our country in the Twentieth Century was the Civil Rights movement which began, essentially, in the 1940's with WW II, received its focus with the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, ...

Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Volume ...
Clayborne Carson, Gary B. Nash, ...

Longman, 2006

The Struggle for Freedom, a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history. In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and illuminate the momentous decisions that, collectively, frame the American past and present. ...

African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Combined Volume

2 reviews
Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, ...

Longman, 2004

Survey Text Humanizes African American History
African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Single Volume Edition by Clayborne Carson (Longman) Alternate editions [Volume One Chapters One through Eleven; Volume Two Chapters Eleven Through Twenty-One] Excerpt: Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; they want the ...

A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.

13 reviews
Martin Luther King Jr., Peter Holloran, ...

Grand Central Publishing, 2000

MLK "A Knock at Midnight" Sermon Series Review...
The sermon series is awesome!!! Each sermon has an introduction that gives the listener valuable tidbits about the sermon. You can feel the effect of MLK's powerful oration abilities. All of the sermons are still relevant today and anyone who has a pulse can benefit from listening to the set.

In Struggle : SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s

3 reviews
Clayborne Carson

Harvard University Press, 1995

What would the US be like without them?
This book is a great account of the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, which was started in 1960 in regard to Segregation on Americas buses and in the Woolworth dining room. This book leaves out no account, and anyone who had anything to do with the movement and SNCC is mentioned in this book. Carson went all out, and I think this book should be required reading in every Civil Rights ...

African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom, Volume I
Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, ...

Longman, 2004

A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

23 reviews
Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard

Hachette Audio, 2001

Very inspirational
My parents and I have listened to all the CDs with the greatest enthusiasm over and over again. The quality is pretty good and the speeches are not extracts, but played in full. Barring few, I have found most of the introductions to be very informative and well presented. I am glad this collection includes both of Dr King's most famous "I have a Dream" and "I've been to the Mountaintop" speeches ...

Civil Rights Chronicle (The African-American Struggle for Freedom)

3 reviews
Clayborne Carson, Myrlie Evers-Williams, ...

Publications International, 2003

exceptional view of history
The Civil Rights Chronicle belongs in every library, every school, and every home. This honest look at the enslavement of people is not to be missed. The struggle for independence and freedom is chronicled here for all, black, white, or 'other', to read and understand. There are so many things in this world that should never be allowed to happen again! Yet they continue to happen.

Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Volume I ...

2 reviews
Clayborne Carson, Gary B. Nash, ...

Longman, 2006

An Awesome Book
I have to review this book! It is a gem. I teach African American Studies at a liberal arts college in NJ and had given up using prepared texts long ago in favor of primary documents and topical books. The publisher sent this book as an exam copy; it languished on my desk for months. I only picked it up - when I finally did - because of authors Nash and Carson, whose work I had read elsewhere and ...

The Harvard Guide to African-American History: Foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Harvard University Press ...

Harvard University Press, 2001

This landmark guide covers research into every aspect of African-American life and work, offering a compendium of information and interpretation about almost 400 years of African-Americans' experiences as an ethnic group and as Americans. The first part of the Guide contains 12 essays on historical research aids, from traditional archival and reference materials to the Internet. The second and largest part presents comprehensive and ...

Struggle for Freedom: A History of African Americans, The, Penguin Academic Series, Concise Edition, Combined ...
Clayborne Carson, Emma J. Lapsansky-Werner, ...

Longman, 2006

The Struggle for Freedom, a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history. In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical changes of the era turn. Life stories capture the rush of events that envelop individuals and illuminate the momentous decisions that, collectively, frame the American past and present. ...

The Long Shadow of Little Rock: A Memoir

4 reviews
Daisy Bates

University of Arkansas Press, 2007

Great Account
Daisy Bates was an integral figure in the integration of Little Rock Central High School. As president of the State Conference of NAACP branches, she was very active in the fight for black rights. Hers is an eloquent account of a highly volatile situation. She effectively compares her views with other accounts of people that were there, and the writing is very fluid and moving.

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. : Rediscovering Precious Values July 1951-November 1955 (Papers of ...

1 review
Martin Luther King Jr., Peter H. Holloran, ...

University of California Press, 1994

The young MLK
Volume 1 of the King papers goes to 1951, when M.L. King, Jr., was 22. There are childhood letters to parents, but more interesting are student essays from Morehouse and Crozer, which show King gaining confidence and sophistication as his education progressed.

The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia
Clayborne Carson, Tenisha Armstrong, ...

Greenwood Press, 2008

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, ...

Fighting for Us: Maulana Karenga, the US Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism
Scot Brown, Clayborne Carson

NYU Press, 2005

View the Table of Contents . Read the Introduction . ?A detailed and sober account . . . Fighting for US is of enormous and permanent value.? ? Publishers Weekly "Readers will find Brown's study a well-researched document on the key era of the 1960s and 1970s, and it will serve as a guide to other scholars as more students of the freedom era take up the challenge to study and explore this rich period in our nation's history." ? ...

Becoming King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Making of a National Leader (Civil Rights and the Struggle for ...
Troy Jackson

University Press of Kentucky, 2008

?The history books may write it Rev. King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the struggle here, and now he is moving to Atlanta for bigger responsibilities.??Member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, November 1959 Preacher?this simple term describes the twenty-five-year-old Ph.D. in theology who arrived in Montgomery, Alabama, to become the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in ...

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