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Drawing upon a wide-ranging selection of scholarship and popular history, this invaluable sourcebook throws a powerful light on the civil rights movement and its most influential leader. Debates that until now have been carried out across a variety of books and journals are here brought together for the first time in a clear and insightful volume which introduces readers to key topics, debates and writers in the field. covers wider movement issues such as:- National and local leadership styles.- The role of women and gender.- Violence and non-violence.- Integration and separatism.It also examines specific issues related to King, including:- Family, church and educational influences.- Oratory and authorship.- King''s relationship with Malcolm X and other leaders.- King''s more radical stand during the final years of his life.- Controversies and debates surrounding his assassination.- Ongoing efforts to commemorate King''s achievements.Authoritative and stimulating this is an essential resource for anyone with an interest in the man and the movement.>
List of contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: Martin Luther King, Jr and the Civil Rights Movement
Leadership: National and Local Perspectives
Influences: African American Church, White Academy
Authorship: Plagiarism, Ghost-Writing, and Voice-Merging
Tactics: Nonviolence, Violence, and Armed Self Defence
Comparisons: Martin Luther King, Jr and Malcolm X
Relationships: Women and Gender, Sex and Sexuality
Radicalism: Martin Luther King, Jr's Final Years, 1965-8
Assassination: Conspiracy or Lone Gunman?
Commemoration: The King Holiday and Street Naming
Bibliography
Index.
About the author
John A Kirk
