Martin Luther King Jr: America's Great Nonviolent Leader in the Struggle for Human Rights (People Who Have Helped the World) - Softcover

Schloredt, Valerie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819215244 ISBN 13: 9780819215246

Publisher: Morehouse Pub Co

Synopsis

Recounts the life of Nobel Prize-winning civil right leader, Dr. Martin Luther King, jr

About this title

About the Author

Robert Jakoubek holds degrees in history from Indiana University and Columbia University. He is the coauthor of These United States, an American history textbook.

From School Library Journal

Grade 7-10-- In this addition to the series, Dr. King emerges as an articulate, effective leader whose oratorical skills and commitment to his ideals propelled him into the national spotlight. In a straightforward manner, Jakoubek describes King's family background, schooling, ministry, and civil rights involvement, showing a man whose philosophy of nonviolence was to test the soul of a nation. On the whole, the portrayal of King is balanced; his anxieties, doubts, and flaws are revealed, as well as the problems he had with those who opposed him or his nonviolent approach. There is a reference to his infidelities and the FBI's attempt to discredit him. The book has numerous familiar photographs, a chronology, and a bibliography that contains a few entries that are either too advanced or too scholarly for the intended age group. For an insightful look into King and the civil rights movement, this will be a useful resource. --Jeanette Lambert, LaVega School, Waco, TX
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morehouse Pub Co
• ISBN 10: 0819215244
• ISBN 13: 9780819215246
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English