Roger Bruns is an independent scholar and prolific author of biographies of Billy Graham (Greenwood, 2004), Jesse Jackson (Greenwood, 2005), and many other major figures.

• ForewordIntroductionTimeline of Events in the Life of Martin Luther King Jr.Sweet AuburnLearning YearsBoston and CorettaMontgomery and the Road to Civil RightsA Growing MovementAlbany, GeorgiaBloody BirminghamTumult and Tragedy - 1963Johnson, King, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964SelmaTaking on ChicagoVietnam, Black Power and 1967MemphisSelected BibliographyIndex

He was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, and was ordained and graduated college at 19. He earned a doctorate in systematic theology at 26 from Boston University and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference fewer than two years later. By the time he was 34 he would be addressing 200,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. By 35 he would receive the Nobel Peace Prize. In the next four years of his life he would lead marches for voting rights, sponsor the Poor People's Campaign, and realize in a split second he would not see 40. Written for general readers at the high school level, this text gives basic information about the life and work of Dr. King, his activism and rise to the leadership of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and the continuing aftereffects of his work in nonviolence and justice.

Roger Bruns is an independent scholar and prolific author of biographies of Billy Graham (Greenwood, 2004), Jesse Jackson (Greenwood, 2005), and many other major figures.

• ForewordIntroductionTimeline of Events in the Life of Martin Luther King Jr.Sweet AuburnLearning YearsBoston and CorettaMontgomery and the Road to Civil RightsA Growing MovementAlbany, GeorgiaBloody BirminghamTumult and Tragedy - 1963Johnson, King, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964SelmaTaking on ChicagoVietnam, Black Power and 1967MemphisSelected BibliographyIndex

He was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, and was ordained and graduated college at 19. He earned a doctorate in systematic theology at 26 from Boston University and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference fewer than two years later. By the time he was 34 he would be addressing 200,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. By 35 he would receive the Nobel Peace Prize. In the next four years of his life he would lead marches for voting rights, sponsor the Poor People's Campaign, and realize in a split second he would not see 40. Written for general readers at the high school level, this text gives basic information about the life and work of Dr. King, his activism and rise to the leadership of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and the continuing aftereffects of his work in nonviolence and justice.

Roger Bruns is an independent scholar and prolific author of biographies of Billy Graham (Greenwood, 2004), Jesse Jackson (Greenwood, 2005), and many other major figures.

• ForewordIntroductionTimeline of Events in the Life of Martin Luther King Jr.Sweet AuburnLearning YearsBoston and CorettaMontgomery and the Road to Civil RightsA Growing MovementAlbany, GeorgiaBloody BirminghamTumult and Tragedy - 1963Johnson, King, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964SelmaTaking on ChicagoVietnam, Black Power and 1967MemphisSelected BibliographyIndex

He was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, and was ordained and graduated college at 19. He earned a doctorate in systematic theology at 26 from Boston University and founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference fewer than two years later. By the time he was 34 he would be addressing 200,000 at the Lincoln Memorial. By 35 he would receive the Nobel Peace Prize. In the next four years of his life he would lead marches for voting rights, sponsor the Poor People's Campaign, and realize in a split second he would not see 40. Written for general readers at the high school level, this text gives basic information about the life and work of Dr. King, his activism and rise to the leadership of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, and the continuing aftereffects of his work in nonviolence and justice.