King
Subtitle: the photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
By: Charles Johnson & Bob Adelman ; photo editor & historian, Robert Phelan ; editor, Mary Beth Brewer ; designed by Will Hopkins & Mary K. Baumann
Contributors: Adelman, Bob.
Publisher: Viking Studio
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Pictorial works.; African Americans -- Biography -- Pictorial works.; Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Pictorial works.; Baptists -- United States -- Clergy -- Biography -- Pictorial works.; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.; Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works.
Genres: Pictorial works.; Biography
Description: "King is the first true photobiography of a hero's journey. Never before has Martin Luther King's life been so richly chronicled from so many different points of view. A powerful array of photographic images combined with text by writer Charles Johnson, a National Book Award winner, detail the pivotal events of King's public life - as well as life with his family - in a rich and stirring format. Johnson writes, "How soon we forget that King was not only a civil rights activist, but also this country's preeminent moral philosopher, a spiritual aspirant, a father and husband, and that these diverse roles - these multiple dimensions of his too brief life - were the foundations for his singular 'dream' that inspired millions worldwide." Here, then, we see Martin Luther King, Jr., in all his aspects: as husband and father, powerful preacher, courageous leader of the civil rights movement, martyr for the cause of racial justice, and finally American icon."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Bob Adelman book."