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Marching to the mountaintop : how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours
Title:
Marching to the mountaintop : how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours
Author:
Bausum, Ann.
Personal Author:
Bausum, Ann.
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, [2012]

©2012
Physical Description:
104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language:
English
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.
Reading Level:
1200 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 8.9 4.0 148836.
Personal Subject:
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968-Juvenile literature.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968-Assassination-Juvenile literature.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968-Assassination.
Subject Term:
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 -- Juvenile literature.

Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.

Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century.

African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Geographic Term:
Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.

Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781426309397

9781426309403
Format :
Book

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