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King : Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sitkoff, Harvard.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African American civil rights workers--Biography.
- African American civil rights workers.
- Civil rights movements--United States.
- Civil rights movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (288 p.) ill
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- King
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007.
- Summary:
- By telling King's life as one on the verge of reaching its fullest fulfillment, Sitkoff shows where King's faith and activism were leading him - to a direct confrontation with a president over an immoral war and with an America blind to its complicity in economic injustice.
- Contents:
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- 1 - EDUCATING A PREACHER KING, 1929–54
- 2 - BAPTISM BY FIRE, 1955–56
- 3 - THESE HUMBLE CHILDREN OF GOD, 1957–62
- 4 - CONFRONTING THE CONSCIENCE OF AMERICA, 1963
- 5 - REDEMPTION AND CRISIS, 1964
- 6 - WE SHALL OVERCOME, 1965
- 7 - THE ROAD TO JERICHO VIA CHICAGO, 1966
- 8 - SEEING LAZARUS, 1967–68
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX
- Notes
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- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 9781429923385
- 1429923385
- OCLC:
- 1443939115
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