This intimate portrait of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his early family life by his only sister illustrates how he was empowered to perform miraculous deeds and change the course of American history. 25 b #38;w photographs throughout.

While the Supreme Court's Brown ruling historically signified the official end of racial segregation in the United States, a critical flaw was contained in the decision by the calculated instruction that desegregation should proceed with "all deliberate speed," argues Ogletree (Harvard Law School). Ogletree combines discussion of the legal battles leading up to and following Brown, a decidedly negative appraisal of the ruling's relevance to the educational opportunities of the majority of African Americans, and a relatively more positive exploration of its impact on his own life and the opportunities it provided him at Stanford University and Harvard Law. Annotation #169;2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The first comprehensive guidebook to the battlegrounds and back roads of the civil rights movement in the deep South, "Weary Feet, Rested Souls" extensively chronicles the churches, jails, courthouses, homes, barber shops, soda fountains, and even a bowling alley where the formative events of this inspiring movement took place. 113 photos. 22 original maps.

""I have a dream" - no words are more widely recognized, or more often repeated, than those called out from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1963. King's speech, elegantly structured and commanding in tone, has become shorthand not only for his own life but for the entire civil rights movement. In this new exploration of the "I have a dream" speech, Eric J. Sundquist places it in the history of American debates about racial justice - debates as old as the nation itself - and demonstrates how the speech, an exultant blend of grand poetry and powerful elocution, perfectly expressed the story of African American freedom." "This book is the first to set King's speech within the cultural and rhetorical traditions on which the civil rights leader drew in crafting his oratory, as well as its essential historical contexts, from the early days of the republic through present-day Supreme Court rulings. At a time when the meaning of the speech has been obscured by its appropriation for every conceivable cause, Sundquist clarifies the transformative power of King's "Second Emancipation Proclamation" and its continuing relevance for contemporary arguments about equality."--BOOK JACKET.