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3) Dear Martin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"Raw and gripping." Jason Reynolds, New York Times bestselling coauthor of All American Boys A must-read!” Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hate U Give Raw, captivating, and undeniably real, Nic Stone joins industry giants Jason Reynolds and Walter Dean Myers as she boldly tackles American race relations in this stunning debut. Justyce McAllister is top of his class and set for the Ivy Leaguebut none of that matters to the...
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In a rich embroidery of visions, musical cadence, and deep emotion, Andrea and Brian Pinkney convey the final months of Martin Luther King's life -- and of his assassination -- through metaphor, spirituality, and multilayers of meaning. Andrea's stunning poetic requiem, illustrated with Brian's lyrical and colorful artwork, brings a fresh perspective to Martin Luther King, the Gandhi-like, peace-loving activist whose dream of equality -- and whose...
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Language
English
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From the acclaimed bestselling author of "Ghost Soldiers" and "Blood and Thunder," a taut, intense narrative about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the largest manhunt in American history--a sixty-five-day search that led investigators to Canada, Portugal, and England.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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An introduction to the life Martin Luther King, Jr. Including how he organized the Montgomery Bus Boycott and African American people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights.
Author
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author, James Earl Rays defense attorney, and, later, lawyer for the King family William Pepper reveals who actually killed MLK. William Pepper was James Earl Rays lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., and even after Rays conviction and death, Pepper continues to adamantly argue Rays innocence. This myth-shattering exposé is a revised, updated, and heavily expanded volume of Peppers original bestselling and critically...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"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."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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An account of the author's brief years shared with his civil rights leader father offers insight into their special bond, their separation during Dr. King's imprisonment, and the author's five-year-old witness to the famous "I Have a Dream" speech.
17) Citizen King
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfloded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans,...
19) My Uncle Martin's words for America: Martin Luther King Jr.'s niece tells how he made a difference
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explains how Martin Luther King used his message of love and peace to fight for civil rights for African Americans.
20) The radical King
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Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Every year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. But after more than forty years, few people appreciate how truly radical he was. Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King's revolutionary...
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