Title: King
First published: 2000
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.
Subjects: Pictorial works, Biography, African Americans, History, Civil rights, Civil rights movements, Baptists, Clergy, Civil rights workers, King, martin luther, jr., 1929-1968, Civil rights movements, united states, United states, history, 20th century, United states, history, pictorial works
Places: United States
People: Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: E185.97.K5 J57 2000