Martin Luther King, Jr., read by Dion Graham. Mission Audio, unabridged, one CD, 1 hr., $5.98 ISBN 978-1-61045-748-4
“But since I feel that you are men of genuine good will and your criticisms are sincerely set forth, I would like to answer your statement in what I hope will be patient and reasonable terms.” This simple, yet utterly powerful intro to what is...
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Martin Luther King Jr., edited and intro. by Lewis V. Baldwin. Beacon, $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8070-8605-6
Baldwin (The Voice of Conscience), a Vanderbilt University religious studies professor and prolific King scholar, offers a slender, focused selection of King’s “positions on global liberation struggles through the prism of his own words and...
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Martin Luther King III, illus. by AG Ford. HarperCollins/Amistad, $17.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-06-028075-8
“There have been a lot of books written about my father. But not a whole lot has been written about my dad,” explains King, the second of four children of the civil rights leader. Personal anecdotes appear throughout this picture book biography,...
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Martin Luther King Jr. Edited and introduced by Cornel West. Beacon, $26.95 (312p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1282-6
This selection of King’s writings and speeches ably introduces historical neophytes to the great civil rights leader’s “radical” side, though readers may feel a disconnect between his empathetic words and the scathing introduction from West (Race...
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Martin Luther King Jr., illus. by Kadir Nelson. Random/Schwartz & Wade, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-375-85887-1
There’s something exhilarating about viewing Nelson’s (Heart and Soul) paintings of Dr. King and the March on Washington while reading the words of the speech King gave that day; it’s hard to imagine a better representation of their historical...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Author, Clayborne Carson, Editor, Clayborne Carson, Preface by Warner Books $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-446-52412-4
Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project and author of A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., has pieced together an incomplete study of King's life by supplementing his...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Author, Clayborne Carson, Editor, Kris Shepard, Editor , read by various readers. Time Warner Audio $42.98 (0p) ISBN 978-1-58621-046-5
In his introduction, the one-time ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young refers to MLK as "the voice of the century," and this collection deftly pays homage to that powerful voice. Carson (a Stanford University historian) and Shepard...
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Author, Kathleen A. Wilson, Illustrator, Coretta Scott King, Foreword by Scholastic Press $16.95 (40p) ISBN 978-0-590-20516-0
King's most famous speech is handsomely interpreted in this lavish volume, which pairs his stirring words with illustrations by 15 Coretta Scott King Award- or Honor-winning artists. Taking as their inspiration King's timeless message, delivered at...
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