The Life and Death of Martin Luther King

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Decades after his assassination, America still questions the impact of its Nobel Peace Prize winner, Martin Luther King.

This African-American was born in 1929, the son of a Baptist minister. He grew up in the American South. There and then, he and many others like him were excluded from opportunities in education, employment and the right to vote. This had been the way and the life in America for generations.

Martin Luther King appealed to the conscience of the nation – but did the nation have a conscience?

This title is the first in the African American investigations series to examine this struggle from an Africancentric perspective. In particular, it looks at how King and the civil rights movement became elevated to the forefront of an African-American awakening in the twentieth century.