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Item Nr: B 124744 Title: Chasing King's Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
Grade Lvl: JS Author: Swanson, James L
Length: 373 Prod/Pub: Scholastic Press
Copyright: 2018 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee:
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys -- but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of the time, and a blow-by-blow examination of the assassination and its aftermath. Includes primary sources, bibliography, index and color photos throughout. IL 8-12. AR 7.6. RC 8.6. Lexile 1010.

  Subjects:
  26 - AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  370 - CRIME AND CRIMINALS
  383 - DEATH
  592 - HISTORY
  596 - HISTORY, MODERN--20TH CENTURY
  1680 - LEXILE 1000-1099
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  1007 - SOCIAL STUDIES