Misremembering Dr. King : Revisiting the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. /
We all know the name. Martin Luther King Jr, the great American civil rights leader. But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and racism-what he called the ""giant triplets."" Jennifer J. Yanco takes steps to redress...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
[2014]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | We all know the name. Martin Luther King Jr, the great American civil rights leader. But most people today know relatively little about King, the campaigner against militarism, materialism, and racism-what he called the ""giant triplets."" Jennifer J. Yanco takes steps to redress this imbalance. ""My objective is to highlight the important aspects of Dr. King's work which have all but disappeared from popular memory, so that more of us can 'really see King.'"" After briefly telling the familiar story of King's civil rights campaigns and accomplishments, she considers the lesser-known concer |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (110 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780253014245 |