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Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies) by Bruns, Roger A., 1941- is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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There has been recent controversy in the African American community about youth and their lack of appreciation for the gains of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This stellar biography is a superb introduction to the foremost leader of the civil rights movement. The story and historical context will be eye-opening for students and a good refresher for others who are too young to have remembered the events. In a gripping narrative style, the biography traces the young Martin, the son and grandson of formidable preachers, to his calling as a minister too, but one who would take on the entrenched racism of the South, and North, through a nonviolent movement that changed the course of American history. There has been recent controversy in the African American community about youth and their lack of appreciation for the gains of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This stellar biography is a superb introduction to the foremost leader of the civil rights movement. The story and historical context will be eye-opening for students and a good refresher for others who are too young to have remembered the events. In a gripping narrative style, the biography trace
Who reads Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)?
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Bruns, Roger A., 1941-
- Publisher
- Greenwood Publishing Group, Incorporated
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9798400683183
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Memoir, Political Science, History
- Rating
- 3.65 / 5 (21 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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