Bibliograph

Marching to the mountaintop, [how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours], Ann Bausum

Type

Label

Marching to the mountaintop, [how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours], Ann Bausum

Language

eng

Form of composition

not applicable

Format of music

not applicable

Intended audience

1200L, Lexile

resource.interestAgeLevel

10 years and up

Literary text for sound recordings

historybiography

Main title

Marching to the mountaintop

Medium

sound recording audiobook CD

Responsibility statement

Ann Bausum

Series statement

National Geographic

Sub title

[how poverty, labor fights, and civil rights set the stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s final hours]

Summary

Bausum revisits 1968 Memphis, Tennessee, to examine how the sanitation workers' strike set the scene for one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s greatest speeches. It would also be the site of his tragic death, an event that dramatically altered the face of the Civil Rights Movement

Target audience

pre adolescent

Transposition and arrangement

not applicable

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