Contributions

  • Mitchell, Hetty, ill. - Contributor

Publication

1987 - Carolrhoda Books, Minneapolis, Minn, Minnesota

Language

English

Word Count

14,000 words, Guess

Page Count

56 pages

Identifiers

  • Internet Archivemartinlutherking00keep
  • ISBN-100876142994
  • ISBN-100876144687
  • ISBN-139780876142998
  • ISBN-139780876144688
and 3 more

Classifications

  • DDC323.4/092/4
  • DDCB
  • DDC92
and 1 more
  • LCCE185.97.K5 L65 1987

Description

This book tells about the life and work of the black minister who became the foremost leader of the Civil Rights Movement. We see his strict but loving family, his early encounters with prejudice and segregation laws, his discovery of the ideas of Gandhi, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, his Nobel Peace Prize, and his death. For grades 2-4.

Description

Briefly recounts the life of the black minister who devoted his life to civil rights and discusses the national holiday in his name: Martin Luther King Day celebrated on the third Monday of every January.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography
  • Juvenile literature

Series Statement

  • Carolrhoda on my own books

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