Clarence B Jones: 2 books
by Joel Engel, Clarence B. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, depriving the world of one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. He was thirty-nine. King had achieved so much at such a young age that it is hard...
Behind the Dream
The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
"I have a dream." When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr. brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators...