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Item Nr: B 114761 Title: Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
Grade Lvl: IJS Author: Bausum, Ann
Length: 104 Prod/Pub: National Geographic
Copyright: 2012 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee: King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Copies: 3 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  Examines the link between the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., discussing how the strike, the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and the labor protests all laid the foundations for what many consider to be King's greatest speech, given just days before he was killed, and how that speech and King's death influenced the end of the strike. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968. AR 8.9 IL 5-10.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  124 - ASSASSINATION
  306 - CIVIL RIGHTS
  668 - LABOR UNIONS
  885 - POVERTY
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  1005 - SOCIAL PROBLEMS
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES
  1126 - U.S.--HISTORY--1961-1969
  1120 - U.S.--HISTORY--20TH CENTURY
  1136 - U.S.--SOCIAL CONDITIONS