Martin's dream : my journey and the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. : a memoir / Clayborne Carson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carson, Clayborne, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Carson, Clayborne, 1944-.

Carson, Clayborne.

Carson, Clayborne, 1944---Friends and associates.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

Stanford University.

African American civil rights workers--Biography.

African American civil rights workers.

Political and social views.

African American historians.

African American political activists.

Friends and associates.

African American political activists--Biography.

African American historians--Biography.

Stanford University--Faculty--Biography.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Influence.

King, Martin Luther.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Political and social views.

King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006.

King, Coretta Scott.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 297 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Summary:

Coretta Scott King selected Dr. Carson--then a history professor at Stanford University--to edit the papers of her late husband. In this candid and engrossing memoir, he traces his evolution from political activist to activist scholar. He vividly recalls his involvement in the movement's heyday and in the subsequent turbulent period.

Contents:

Part one: the movement. Alone at the march ; Leaving home ; Finding the movement in Los Angeles ; Bridging racial boundaries ; Voluntary exile ; A not so ivory tower ; SNCC's legacy ; In struggle

Part two: The King Papers Project. Keeper of the papers ; Editing King ; Unwanted discovery ; Atlanta roots ; Passages ; Dexter's vision ; In Coretta's basement ; Autobiographer ; A dream deferred ; Transitions

Part three: King's legacy. Memorial on the mall ; Bringing King to China ; A Palestinian King drama ; Obama's conscience ; An enduring dream.

ISBN:

9780230621695

0230621694

OCLC:

809365648