This major biography of Dr. Martin Luther King begins with his leadership during the Montgomery bus boycott and follows his participation in major civil rights campaigns of the '50s and '60s. Garrow, a professor of political science, has done prodigious research into the people and organizations of the period, especially the Southern Christian ...
A record of the American civil rights movement. Included are speeches by Martin Luther King Jr, and his "Letter from Birmingham City Jail", an interview with Rosa Parks, selections from "Malcolm X Speaks"; Black Panther Bobby Seale's "Seize the Time", a piece by Herman Badillo on the infamous Attica prison uprising; addresses by Harold Washington, ...
An Emory University professor reveals startling details of the surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. by the FBI, who unjustly accused him of being a communist. The author describes how J. Edgar Hoover and others uncovered details of King's private life, which only intensified their efforts to destroy him.
This memoirist was a clerk to Supreme Court Justice James C. McReynolds for the 1936 term. A Harvard Law School graduate, Knox kept a meticulous diary in which he portrays the 75-year old McReynolds as a cantankerous old man with prejudices, whose legal opinions were superficial. Knox also records the important issues before the court, including ...
Focusing on the Roe v. Wade case, this is an account of the legal and political struggles that created the right to privacy and won constitutional protection for a woman's right to choose abortion. Roe versus Wade, the landmark 1973 US Supreme Court ruling that established that right, grew out of not only efforts to legalise abortion but also out ...
Federal voting rights legislation and the civil rights protests in Selma and Birmingham, Alabama, in 1965. Emphasis on Martin Luther King, Jr., as leader of SCLC.
Here is the real history behind the 1973 legalization of abortion--a fascinating account that began 50 years earlier with activist Estelle Trebert Griswold and other courageous women's fight for the right of privacy. Garrow is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the acclaimed Martin Luther King, Jr., biography Bearing the Cross.
This major biography of Dr. Martin Luther King begins with his leadership during the Montgomery bus boycott and follows his participation in major civil rights campaigns of the '50s and '60s. Garrow, a professor of political science, has done prodigious research into the people and organizations of the period, especially the Southern Christian ...
The first volume of the two-volume Library of America collection of the best Civil Rights-era writing includes journalism and excerpts from books by writers such as Bayard Rustin, Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, Robert Penn Warren, David Halberstam, and Anne Moody.
In this work, David J. Garrow documents the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr. showing how the FBI employed electronic eavesdropping devices, paid informants, and anonymous letters in a vicious but unsuccessful effort to destroy the civil-rights leader.
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