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Abernathy, Ralph 1926-1990 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Civil rights demonstrations Georgia Atlanta History 20th century Civil rights movements Civil rights United States History Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Nineteen sixty-three, A.D Shuttlesworth, Fred L 1922-2011 Southern Christian Leadership Conference. United States Politics and government 1953-1961Filter By Subjects
Abernathy, Ralph 1926-1990 Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights. Civil rights demonstrations Georgia Atlanta History 20th century Civil rights movements Civil rights United States History Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Nineteen sixty-three, A.D Shuttlesworth, Fred L 1922-2011 Southern Christian Leadership Conference. United States Politics and government 1953-1961Summary: The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KINKix, Paul
Summary: It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo-that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd-he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.1 KIXKendrick, Stephen
Summary: "A history of the 1960 US presidential election with a focus on the role played by the imprisonment of Martin Luther King Jr. in the wake of an Atlanta sit-in"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021