Martin Luther King

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WORLD LEADERS PAST PRESENT
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Martin Luther King stands with our other American martyrs in the cause of freedom and justice. -lyndon b. johnson
A man of this magnitude will not soon pass this way again.
-richard g. hatcher
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. -martin luther king. jr.
Born in 1929. the son of a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King. Jr., grew up in the American South, where racism had long been the source of social injustice, where black people had suffered discrimination for decades.
Inspired by Indian nationalist Mohandas Gandhi, this century's greatest exponent of nonviolence, Martin Luther King, Jr., came to the forefront of the black struggle for civil rights in 1955, when he acted as spokesman for protestors of racism in Montgomery, Alabama. There he displayed the physical courage, strength of mind, and passion which were to... Tovább

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WORLD LEADERS PAST PRESENT
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Martin Luther King stands with our other American martyrs in the cause of freedom and justice. -lyndon b. johnson
A man of this magnitude will not soon pass this way again.
-richard g. hatcher
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. -martin luther king. jr.
Born in 1929. the son of a Baptist minister, Martin Luther King. Jr., grew up in the American South, where racism had long been the source of social injustice, where black people had suffered discrimination for decades.
Inspired by Indian nationalist Mohandas Gandhi, this century's greatest exponent of nonviolence, Martin Luther King, Jr., came to the forefront of the black struggle for civil rights in 1955, when he acted as spokesman for protestors of racism in Montgomery, Alabama. There he displayed the physical courage, strength of mind, and passion which were to grip people everywhere and draw them into an active awareness of the oppression which plagued blacks and other minorities.
For the next 13 years Martin Luther King, Jr preached a message of love and reconciliation—even when imprisoned or threatened with death. He appealed to the conscience of a nation and instilled in his people the courage to fight for equality and their rightful status as free citizens.
All his life he spoke out against man's inhumanity to man, against the scourge of war and the plague of poverty. When he was assassinated in 1968 people of all political and religious persuasions mourned the passing of the black American preacher and leader who had helped raise the consciousness of mankind.
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^vorld leaders • past ft present, a series of 157 biographies written especially for young adults, introduces the men and women whose ideas and actions have determined the course of history. From Martin Luther to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. from Cortés to Khomeini, world leaders • past ft present spans the centuries and the globe,
"Leadership." as Professor Arthur M. Schlesinger jr. says in his introduction to the series, "is the capacity of individuals to move, inspire, and mobilize masses of people so that they act together in pursuit of an end." How have the great leaders of histoiy achieved their goals? How did they deal with obstacles and enemies, defeat and success? What were the personal and historical events that shaped their lives?
The series is profusely illustrated with paintings, engravings, maps, and photographs. Together the text and illustrations vividly illuminate the lives of the leaders and the times in which they lived. Vissza