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

Author: 
Bausum, Ann.
Call Number: 
323.4092 K53Bau
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Booklist Description: 
Grades 6 and up. This powerful and visually stunning book discusses the last days of Martin Luther King and his work with the Poor People's Campaign, the Memphis sanitation workers' strike, and the intersection of workers rights and civil rights, as well as King's assassination in Memphis in 1968.
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