Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!

Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! PDF Author: Eleanora E. Tate
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440414070
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
Mary Eloise is disappointed that the part she gets in the school play is that of Black History narrator--but two storytellers visit her school and change how she views her heritage.

Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr!

Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr! PDF Author: Eleanora E. Tate
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The children of Gumbo Grove Elementary School discover the contributions of many famous Afro-Americans during Black History Month.

Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.!

Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! PDF Author: Eleanora E. Tate
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 9780440414070
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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Book Description
Mary Eloise is disappointed that the part she gets in the school play is that of Black History narrator--but two storytellers visit her school and change how she views her heritage.

Thank You, Dr. King!

Thank You, Dr. King! PDF Author: Robin Reid
Publisher: Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
ISBN: 9780689852428
Category : African American families
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
Little Bill learns about Dr. Martin Luther King.

Thank You, Dr. King!

Thank You, Dr. King! PDF Author: Robin Reid
Publisher: Scholastic Incorporated
ISBN: 9780439462921
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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While on a visit to the Anacostia Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, Emma finds herself as a runaway slave using the Underground Railroad to make her way to freedom in Canada.

A Place to Land

A Place to Land PDF Author: Barry Wittenstein
Publisher: Holiday House
ISBN: 0823443744
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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As a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech and the movement that it galvanized. Winner of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children Selected for the Texas Bluebonnet Master List Much has been written about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the 1963 March on Washington. But there's little on his legendary speech and how he came to write it. Martin Luther King, Jr. was once asked if the hardest part of preaching was knowing where to begin. No, he said. The hardest part is knowing where to end. "It's terrible to be circling up there without a place to land." Finding this place to land was what Martin Luther King, Jr. struggled with, alongside advisors and fellow speech writers, in the Willard Hotel the night before the March on Washington, where he gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. But those famous words were never intended to be heard on that day, not even written down for that day, not even once. Barry Wittenstein teams up with legendary illustrator Jerry Pinkney to tell the story of how, against all odds, Martin found his place to land. An ALA Notable Children's Book A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title Nominated for an NAACP Image Award A Bank Street Best Book of the Year A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People A Booklist Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and School Library Journal Selected for the CBC Champions of Change Showcase

Martin & Anne

Martin & Anne PDF Author: Nancy Churnin
Publisher: Creston Books
ISBN: 1954354029
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
Anne Frank and Martin Luther King Jr. were born the same year a world apart. Both faced ugly prejudices and violence, which both answered with words of love and faith in humanity. This is the story of their parallel journeys to find hope in darkness and to follow their dreams.

Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?: A Who Was? Board Book

Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?: A Who Was? Board Book PDF Author: Lisbeth Kaiser
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593225430
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24

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Book Description
Introducing the latest addition to the Who HQ program: board book biographies of relevant and important figures, created specifically for the preschool audience! The #1 New York Times Bestselling Who Was? series expands into the board book space, bringing age-appropriate biographies of influential figures to readers ages 2-4. The chronology and themes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s meaningful life are presented in a masterfully succinct text, with just a few sentences per page. The fresh, stylized illustrations are sure to captivate young readers and adults alike. With a read-aloud biographical summary in the back, this age-appropriate introduction honors and shares the life and work of one of the most influential civil rights activists of our time.

Be a King

Be a King PDF Author: Carole Boston Weatherford
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1681191954
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Book Description
With poetic text and dynamic art, award-winning creators Carole Boston Weatherford and James E. Ransome use key moments from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life to inspire future generations to stand up for what's right, make the world a better place, and be a King. You can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall. You can be a King. Beat the drum for justice. March to your own conscience. Featuring a dual narrative of the key moments of Dr. King's life alongside a modern class as the students learn about him, this engaging story highlights principles that readers today can emulate in their own lives. As times change, Dr. King's example remains, encouraging a new generation of children to take charge and change the world . . . to be a King.

A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr.

A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. PDF Author: David A. Adler
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
ISBN: 1430130458
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Book Description
"...school and public librarians will want to include this in their collections. The audio version...will be in great demand." - School Library Journal

Nine Days

Nine Days PDF Author: Paul Kendrick
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 125015569X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Book Description
"[A] masterly and often riveting account of King’s ordeal and the 1960 'October Surprise' that may have altered the course of modern American political history." —Raymond Arsenault, The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) The authors of Douglass and Lincoln present fully for the first time the story of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s imprisonment in the days leading up to the 1960 presidential election and the efforts of three of John F. Kennedy’s civil rights staffers who went rogue to free him—a move that changed the face of the Democratic Party and propelled Kennedy to the White House. Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, thirty-one-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in at Rich’s Department Store in Atlanta. That day would lead to the first night King had ever spent in jail—and the time that King’s family most feared for his life. An earlier, minor traffic ticket served as a pretext for keeping King locked up, and later for a harrowing nighttime transfer to Reidsville, the notorious Georgia state prison where Black inmates worked on chain gangs overseen by violent white guards. While King’s imprisonment was decried as a moral scandal in some quarters and celebrated in others, for the two presidential candidates—John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon—it was the ultimate October surprise: an emerging and controversial civil rights leader was languishing behind bars, and the two campaigns raced to decide whether, and how, to respond. Stephen and Paul Kendrick’s Nine Days tells the incredible story of what happened next. In 1960, the Civil Rights Movement was growing increasingly inventive and energized while white politicians favored the corrosive tactics of silence and stalling—but an audacious team in the Kennedy campaign’s Civil Rights Section (CRS) decided to act. In an election when Black voters seemed poised to split their votes between the candidates, the CRS convinced Kennedy to agitate for King’s release, sometimes even going behind his back in their quest to secure his freedom. Over the course of nine extraordinary October days, the leaders of the CRS—pioneering Black journalist Louis Martin, future Pennsylvania senator Harris Wofford, and Sargent Shriver, the founder of the Peace Corps—worked to tilt a tight election in Kennedy’s favor and bring about a revolution in party affiliation whose consequences are still integral to the practice of politics today. Based on fresh interviews, newspaper accounts, and extensive archival research, Nine Days is the first full recounting of an event that changed the course of one of the closest elections in American history. Much more than a political thriller, it is also the story of the first time King refused bail and came to terms with the dangerous course of his mission to change a nation. At once a story of electoral machinations, moral courage, and, ultimately, the triumph of a future president’s better angels, Nine Days is a gripping tale with important lessons for our own time.