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Why We Can't Wait (King Legacy) by King Jr., Dr. Martin Luther
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Item specifics
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- ISBN
- 9780807001127
- Book Title
- Why We Can't Wait
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Social Science, Political Science
- Topic
- Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 10.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Dr. King's best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city's streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders' criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, "Letter from Birmingham Jail," was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can't Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King's most incisive and eloquent book, Why We Can't Wait recounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963--during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation--Asia and Africa were "moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace." King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive: "For years now, I have heard the word 'Wait ' It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never.' We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'"
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807001120
ISBN-13
9780807001127
eBay Product ID (ePID)
84461774
Product Key Features
Book Title
Why We Can't Wait
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Discrimination & Race Relations, Civil Rights, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Social Science, Political Science
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
10.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
4
Lc Classification Number
E185.61.K54 2010
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"No child should graduate from high school without having read this book. In telling the story of the third American Revolution, it is as integral to American history as the Declaration of Independence."--Jesse Jackson, "No child should graduate from high school without having read this book. In telling the story of the third American Revolution, it is as integral to American history as the Declaration of Independence." -Jesse Jackson, "No child should graduate from high school without having read this book. In telling the story of the third American Revolution, it is as integral to American history as the Declaration of Independence."-Jesse Jackson
Table of Content
Introduction by Dorothy Cotton 1964 Introduction by Martin Luther King, Jr. I The Negro Revolution--Why 1963? II The Sword That Heals 21 III Bull Connor's Birmingham 47 IV New Day in Birmingham 63 V Letter from Birmingham Jail 85 VI Black and White Together 111 VII The Summer of Our Discontent 129 VIII The Days to Come Selected Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2010-027828
Dewey Decimal
323.1196/0730761781
Intended Audience
Trade
Series
King Legacy Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
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