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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 13 books in this booklist
£1.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780241339466 | ISBN 10: 0241339464
'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' This landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love.  ... more
View book details£4.00 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781910885758 | ISBN 10: 1910885754
As the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr approaches, politicians queue to pay their respects. They smother his memory with praise but none will acknowledge the truth — that King was a radical who wanted a complete trans ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781786635976 | ISBN 10: 1786635976
Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, we are still grappling with the familiar, difficult truths about race in America. The injustices he resisted are still a part of our everyday life, and racism is as much a driving force in our ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781473671003 | ISBN 10: 1473671000
The life story of Coretta Scott King, wife of Martin Luther King Jr. and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist. "Coretta is more relevant today than ever... a female who takes responsibility for creating something bet ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781612196169 | ISBN 10: 1612196160
As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine’s Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it’s as ... more
View book details£13.95 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780300024982 | ISBN 10: 0300024983
"The work of David J. Garrow is more than a day-by-day account of how the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965 came into being. It is also a skillful analysis of the dynamics of protest activity and more particularly of the ways in which successful pr ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781137278937 | ISBN 10: 1137278935
On August 28, 1963, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators flocked to the nation’s capital for the March on Washington. That day Clayborne Carson, a 19-year-old black student from a working-class family in New Mexico who had hitched a ride to Washing ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780807086070 | ISBN 10: 080708607x
An unprecedented and timely collection that captures the global vision of Dr. King — in his own words. Too many people continue to think of Dr. King only as "a southern civil rights leader" or "an American Gandhi," thus ignoring his impact o ... more
View book details£6.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781783560271 | ISBN 10: 1783560274
The night before the March on Washington in 1963 Martin Luther King asked his aides for advice about the next day's speech. "Don't use the lines about "I have a dream," Wyatt Walker told him "It's trite, it's cliché. You've used it too many times alr ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780230337558 | ISBN 10: 0230337554
"I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly ... more
View book details£14.99 hardback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780465002122 | ISBN 10: 0465002129
On April 4, 1968, at 6.01 pm, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King, the prophet for racial and economic justice in America, ended his final speech with the ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2000) - ISBN 13: 9780349112985 | ISBN 10: 0349112983
Compiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King, Jr. - the mild-mannered, inquisitive child and student who rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who constantly questionned the depths of his f ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9780862418373 | ISBN 10: 0862418372
On April 4th, 1968, a shot rang out in the Memphis sky bringing to a violent close the life of the Reverend Martin Luther King. The youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, King brought the Civil Rights message to the attention of the world. In ... more
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