Bruns, Roger A.

Martin Luther King, Jr: a biography/ Roger Bruns. - Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2006. - xiv, 157 p., [5] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. - Greenwood biographies, .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-152) and index.

Introduction -- Timeline of events in the life of Martin Luther King Jr. -- Sweet Auburn -- Learning years -- Boston and Coretta -- Montgomery and the road to civil rights -- A growing movement -- Albany, Georgia -- Bloody Birmingham -- Tumult and tragedy -- 1963 -- Johnson, King, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 -- Selma -- Taking on Chicago -- Vietnam, black power, and 1967 -- Memphis.

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African Americans
Civil rights workers--United States
Baptists--Clergy--United States
African Americans--Civil rights--History

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