Why We Can't Wait

He changed the course of history'' Barack Obamabr>br>''Lightning makes no sound until it strikes''br>br>This is the momentous story of the Civil Rights movement, told by one of its most powerful and eloquent voices. Here Martin Luther King, Jr. recounts the pivotal events in the city of Birmingham, Alabama in 1963 that propelled his non-violent campaign for racial justice from a movement of lunch counter sit-ins and prayer meetings to a phenomenon that ''rocked the richest, most powerful nation to its foundations''. br>br>As inspiring and resonant as it was upon publication, Why We Can''t Wait is both a unique historical document, and an enduring testament to one man''s wise, courageous and endlessly hopeful vision.>

Product details

• Authors: Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther Jr. King
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780241345443
• ISBN: 978-0-241-34544-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Non-fiction book; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays, Social discrimination & inequality, c 1960 to c 1970, United States of America, USA, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Relating to African American people, c 1960 to c 1969, Social discrimination and equal treatment, Demonstrations & protest movements, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies