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The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Leader for Civil Rights
96 pp.
| Enslow |
September, 2014 |
LibraryISBN 978-0-7660-6147-7$27.94 New ed. (1996)
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YALegendary African Americans series.
These biographies, originally published under slightly different titles in the African-American Biographies series, dutifully (and somewhat dully) report on their subjects' lives, accomplishments, and struggles, placing them within their historical time period. Unfortunately, almost all of the black-and-white photographs have been removed in these new editions, making for dense, uninspired packages. Reading list, timeline. Ind. Review covers these Legendary African Americans titles: The Life of Carter G. Woodson, The Life of Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Life of Harriet Tubman, and The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr..