Bibliograph

Marching to the mountaintop, how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours, by Ann Bausum

Type

Label

Marching to the mountaintop, how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours, by Ann Bausum

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 100-102) and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Marching to the mountaintop

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

713188700

Responsibility statement

by Ann Bausum

Sub title

how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours

Summary

Explores how the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and labor protests all converged to set the scene for one of Dr. King's greatest speeches and for his tragic death on April 4, 1968, in Memphis

Table Of Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Death in Memphis -- Strike! -- Impasse -- A war on poverty -- Marching in Memphis -- Last days -- Death in Memphis, reprise -- Overcome -- Afterword -- King's campaigns -- Cast of characters -- Timeline -- Research notes and acknowledgments -- Resource guide

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification