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