TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirk,John A.
TI  - Martin Luther King Jr
T2  - Profiles In Power
SN  - 9781317876502
AV  - E185.97.K5 K575 2014
U1  - 323.092 22
PY  - 2014///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge, Taylor and Francis
KW  - King, Martin Luther,
KW  - African American civil rights workers
KW  - Biography
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Baptists
KW  - Clergy
KW  - Défenseurs des droits de l'homme noirs américains
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Mouvements des droits de l'homme
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Histoire
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Noirs américains
KW  - Droits
KW  - Baptistes
KW  - Clergé
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Political
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Freedom & Security
KW  - Civil Rights
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Cover; Martin Luther King Jr; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: King in Context; 1 Becoming a Leader, 1929-56; Civil Rights in the Mid 1950s; The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott; King's Early Years; The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA); White Montgomery and the Failure of Compromise; Taking a Stand: The Road to Desegregation; 2 Catching Up, 1956-61; King on the National and the International Stage; The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC); The 1960 Sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)King and the Kennedys; The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the 1961 Freedom Rides; 3 Forming a Strategy, 1961-3; The Albany Movement; King's Defeat in Albany, 1961; King's Defeat in Albany, 1962; Learning from Albany, Preparing for Birmingham; The Birmingham Campaign; Birmingham and the Children's Crusade; 4 Glory Bound, 1963-4; The March on Washington; Back to Birmingham: The Sixteenth Street Church Bombing; The St. Augustine Campaign; The 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the Nobel Peace PrizeKing and the FBI; 5 A Movement in Transition, 1965-6; The Selma Campaign; Bloody Sunday; King's 'Tuesday Turnaround'; The Selma to Montgomery March, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Chicago Campaign; The Meredith March Against Fear and the Rise of Black Power; 6 New Directions, 1966-8; The Chicago Open Housing Marches; King's Defeat in Chicago; King and the Vietnam War; The Poor People's Campaign (PPC); The Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike and King's Assassination; Conclusion: Martin and the MovementBibliographical Essay; Index
N2  - Combining the latest insights from KIng biographies and movement histories, this book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the relationship between King and the wider civil rights movement. Delivering a fresh perspective on the relationship between 'the man and the movement', Kirk argues that it is the interactionbetween national and local movement concerns that is essential to understanding King's leadership and black activism in the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk examines King's strengths and his limitations, and weighs the role that king played in then movement alongside the contribution
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