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A nation on fire : America in the wake of the King assassination / Clay Risen.

Van Pelt Library HV6477 .R57 2009
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Risen, Clay.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
Race riots--United States--History--20th century.
Race riots.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Assassination.
King, Martin Luther.
Inner cities--United States--History--20th century.
Inner cities.
History.
Assassination.
United States--Race relations.
United States.
Race relations.
African Americans--Social conditions--1964-1975.
African Americans.
African Americans--Social conditions.
United States--Social conditions--20th century.
Social conditions.
Physical Description:
xii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, [2009]
Contents:
1 King, Johnson, and the Terrible, Glorious Thirty-first Day of March 11
2 April 4: Before the Bullet 29
3 April 4: The News Arrives 39
4 April 4: U and Fourteenth 53
5 April 5: Midnight Interlude 69
6 April 5: "Any Man's Death Diminishes Me" 85
7 April 5: "Once That Line Has Been Crossed" 99
8 April 5: "Official Disorder on Top of Civil Disorder" 113
9 April 5: The Occupation of Washington 129
10 April 5: "There Are No Ghettos in Chicago" 141
11 April 6: Roadblocks 157
12 April 6: An Eruption in Baltimore 169
13 April 7: Palm Sunday 183
14 April 8: Bluff City on Edge 193
15 April 9: A Country Rent Asunder 205
16 April 10 and 11: Two Speeches 217
17 A Summer Postscript 229
18 1969 and After 243.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-282) and index.
ISBN:
9780470177105
0470177101
OCLC:
232358181

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