The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr - Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960

Informationen zum Autor Clayborne Carson is Director and Senior Editor of the Martin Luther King! Jr.! Papers Project and Professor of History at Stanford University. Tenisha Armstrong! Associate Editor! is a graduate of the University of California! Santa Cruz. A former King research fellow! she joined the Project staff in 1998. Susan Carson! Managing Editor! holds an M.L.S. from San Jose State University. She joined the Martin Luther King! Jr.! Papers Project in 1987 and is a coeditor of Volumes III and IV. Adrienne Clay is a graduate of Colby College and a coeditor of Volume IV. Kieran Taylor! Contributing Editor! is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and coeditor of Volume IV. Klappentext "The editors continue their excellent work. One has a poignant sense of King at the end of his twenties! famous! with a full diary! innumerable demands! a knife scar above his heart! and an unfulfilled mission in his soul."-Peter J. Ling! American and Canadian Studies! University of Nottingham "What a gold mine. The introduction is an extraordinary work of scholarship! not simply extending my understanding of King and the movement! but extending it by putting King in the larger contexts of the late fifties."-Ira Berlin! Professor of History! University of Maryland at College Park Zusammenfassung Illustrates the sophistication and effectiveness of Martin Luther King, Jr, one of America's best-known advocates for peace and justice, and the organizations he led. This book also look into the surprising emergence of the sit-in protests that sparked the social struggles of the 1960s. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Papers List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology Editorial Principles and Practices List of Abbreviations THE PAPERS Calendar of Documents Index ...

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Clayborne Carson, Clayborne/ King Carson, Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr
• Con la collaborazione di: Tenisha Armstrong (Editore), Tenisha Hart Armstrong (Editore), Armstrong Tenisha Hart (Editore), Clayborne Carson (Editore), Susan Carson (Editore), Carson Susan (Editore), Adrienne Clay (Editore), Clay Adrienne (Editore), Kieran Taylor (Editore), Taylor Kieran (Editore)
• Editore: University Of California Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.02.2005
• EAN: 9780520242395
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24239-5
• Pagine: 703
• Dimensioni: 190 mm x 260 mm x 50 mm
• Serie: Martin Luther King Papers; Papers of Martin Luther King,; Martin Luther King Papers; Papers of Martin Luther King,
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Civil rights & citizenship, Biography: historical, political and military, Civics and citizenship