King: A Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. - Hardcover

Johnson, Charles; Adelman, Bob

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670892165 ISBN 13: 9780670892167

Publisher: Avery, 2000

Synopsis

A photographic tour of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, public and private, covers a wide range of scenes, from King standing before his congregation to the bus boycott in Montgomery and his incarceration in a Birmingham jail to his assassination and its aftermath. 50,000 first printing.

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About the Author

Charles Johnson's books include the National Book Award-winning novel Middle Passage, Dreamer, and Africans in America. He is currently the Pollock Professor of English at the University of Washington. Bob Adelman photographed the civil rights movement for Life magazine. Robert Phelan is a noted photohistorian and curator of several exhibitions of the civil rights movement.

Reviews

Adult/High School-An intimate portrait of the man, the myth, the persuasive preacher, influential civil-rights leader, caring father and husband, writer, and preeminent moral philosopher. Throughout the book, Johnson and Adelman's text and King's own words are combined with black-and-white photographs to illustrate how Dr. King helped transform an era and inspired a generation of young people to work for change. The more than 300 photographs come from the authors' personal files, AP archives, and Life magazine files. This photographic account of King's life is a major addition to the literature not only on the life of the leader but also on the history of the civil rights movement and civil strife in America. A welcome addition to any library.-ayo dayo, Chinn Park Regional Library, Prince William, VA

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Martin Luther King was only 39 years old when he died, but, in his case, a short life can be a full and resonant one. The 32 years since his death have not decreased our interest in the public and private Dr. King, and such a photogenic figure as he proves a perfect subject for a "photobiography." This photo album leads us from Atlanta to Montgomery to Selma to Washington, D.C., tracking King's never-inactive life as he exercised his commitment to the cause by engaging in vigils, arrests, marches, speeches, and boycotts. But some personal quiet moments are also captured. More than 300 photographs appear, many never before published and some never before printed from the negatives. Textual accompaniment by distinguished writer Johnson gives informational grounding to the images; and as Johnson so philosophically states in his introduction, "Each and every photo on the pages that follow is a portal--a doorway--into a watershed life produced by America's ongoing, unfinished experiment in democracy." Brad Hooper
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This photobiography's sharp and usually sober black-and-white images, insightful introduction, and 18 essays reveal martyred civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-68), from the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56 to his funeral in 1968. The National Book Award-winning Johnson (Middle Passage) supplies the thoughtful text, while veteran photojournalist Adelman (Down Home, Camden, Alabama) depicts Civil Rights struggles in a rural Black Belt town and supplies the single largest source of the approximately 200 pages of selected shots by leading U.S. photographers. The words and images together recall the gritty details of King's dangerous and often grim daily struggle for peace with justice. Virtually alone as a King photobiography, this striking volume puts a face on the man and the movement now blended with him. For photojournalism/history and Civil Rights collections.DThomas J. Davis, Arizona State Univ., Tempe
Copyright 2001 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Avery
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670892165
• ISBN 13: 9780670892167
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288