Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Re=3295&N=3+6196+4294946400 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1687228 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1209562 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=988508 Lyndon Johnson got the call a few minutes after 7 p.m.: Mr. President, Martin Luther King has been shot. Within hours, rioting had engulfed Washington, D.C. Before the violence was over, the US Army occupied three major American cities, and National Guard units patrolled a dozen more. The riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, delivered a death blow to the liberal dream of the 1960s, gave new life to the faltering conservative political movement, and launched urban America into a downward spiral from which much of it has never recovered. In an epic narrative, Risen shows how a mere ten days - between Lyndon Johnsons withdrawal from the 1968 campaign on March 31 to Kings death on April 4 to Johnsons signature of the 1968 Civil Rights Act on April 11 - literally rewrote the course of American history, from race relations to urban decline to presidential politics.--Book jacket. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=614517 This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selmas Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare to vote, and build their own political party, while Stokely Carmichael leaves the movement in frustration to proclaim his famous Black Power doctrine. King takes nonviolence into Northern urban ghettoes, exposing hatreds and fears no less virulent than those in the South. We watch King bring all his eloquence into dissent from the Vietnam War, and make an embattled decision to concentrate on poverty; we reach Memphis, the garbage workers strike, and Kings assassination.--From publisher description. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=553575 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=483723 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=533010 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=162680 What does it mean to be a leader? How does an individual create an unstoppable organization, reshape a struggle, a competition, or even a society? Why do we listen to one mans voice, and ignore anothers? In the history of leadership in America, no one has galvanized a time, place, and people more forcefully than Martin Luther King, Jr. Now Donald T. Phillips has written an illuminating examination of the leadership style of Martin Luther King, Jr. A man who articulated a vision, crafted a strategy, and took defeats and turned them into victory, Dr. King and his lifes work offer us powerful lessons that you can apply to your life, business, and any endeavor you undertake.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=312378 Whom, or what, does composition - defined here as an intentional process of study, either oral or written - serve? Bradford T. Stull contends that composition would do well to articulate, in theory and practice, what could be called emancipatory composition. He argues that emancipatory composition is radically theopolitical: it roots itself in the foundational theological and political language of the American experience while it subverts this language in order to emancipate the oppressed and, thereby, the oppressors. To articulate this vision, Stull looks to those who compose from an oppressed place, finding in the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., and Malcolm X radical theopolitical practices that can serve as a model for emancipatory composition.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=260890 In The Last Crusade, Gerald McKnight examines the Poor Peoples Campaign, the last large-scale demonstration of civil rights-era America, and the systematic efforts of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and his executive officers to subvert Kings ambitious effort to force the federal government to live up to its promises of a Great Society. The book also looks at Kings last days as he helped Memphis sanitation workers in their labor-cum-civil rights struggle with a recalcitrant and racist city government. Although there is no persuasive evidence that the FBI and the Memphis police conspired to assassinate King, McKnight marshals evidence to show that neither agency was blameless. The conventional view of the Poor Peoples Campaign is that it was a self-inflicted failure. The blame rested squarely on the shoulders of the second raters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference who failed to fill the leadership vacuum after Kings assassination. But, as McKnight shows, there was a hidden, dark counterpoint to the accepted version - namely, the triumph of the 1960s American surveillance state and its repressive power and flagrant violation of protected freedoms. In fact, whatever the FBI wanted to do to disrupt the Campaign, it did, aided and abetted by local police agencies and elements of the federal government, including military intelligence.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=236449 In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. Pillar of Fire covers the far-flung upheavals of the years 1963 to 1965 - Dallas, St. Augustine, Mississippi Freedom Summer, LBJs Great Society and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Vietnam, Selma. And it provides a frank, revealing portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr. - haunted by blackmail, factionalism, and hatred while he tried to hold the nonviolent movement together as a dramatic force in history. Allies, rivals, and opponents addressed racial issues that went deeper than fair treatment at bus stops or lunch counters. Participants on all sides stretched themselves and their country to the breaking point over the meaning of simple words: dignity, equal votes, equal souls. Branch brings to bear fifteen years of research - archival investigation; nearly two thousand interviews; new primary sources, from FBI wiretaps to White House telephone recordings - in a seminal work of history.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=133669 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=6818 From the dusty back roads of Montgomery, Alabama, to the legendary March on Washington, D.C., Martin Luther King, Jr., brought a stirring message of peace, equality, and justice to a divided people. He aspired only to be a Baptist minister but by the time he was tragically assassinated in 1968 at the age of thirty-nine, he had led a movement that destroyed segregation in the South, and he had won the Nobel Prize for Peace. Now, a quarter century after his death, his words are as significant and moving as they were in the 1960s. Watts burns today as it did then; issues of race, justice, and human dignity are still the most critical problems facing our nation. This handsome quotation book represents the finest of the Reverend Kings words; it is a classic volume compiled from his essays, lectures, and speeches by his wife, Coretta Scott King. Excerpts from his most famous speeches - I Have a Dream and Ive Been to the Mountaintop - are included, as well as equally powerful but lesser known quotations. Kings vision of healing and forgiveness is a timeless message that America can ill afford to ignore.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=210854 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1679433 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=151909 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1212590 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=7146 Highlighting the legendary civil rights leaders speeches, sermons, and writings, here are 120 quotations, complemented by 16 striking historical photographs, focusing on seven areas of concern the community of man, racism, civil rights, justice and freedom, faith and religion, nonviolence, and peace. Also included is a detailed chronology- of Dr. Kings life and an impressive introduction from Mrs. King on her husbands life and legacy. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=827211