Research Catalog

Title

King : the photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Charles Johnson & Bob Adelman ; photo editor & historian, Robert Phelan ; editor, Mary Beth Brewer ; designed by Will Hopkins & Mary K. Baumann.

Author

Johnson, Charles, 1948-

Publication

New York : Viking Studio, 2000.

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Additional Authors

Adelman, Bob.

Description

288 pages : illustrations; 32 cm

Summary

"King is the first true photobiography of a hero's journey. Never before has Martin Luther King's life been so richly chronicled from so many different points of view. A powerful array of photographic images combined with text by writer Charles Johnson, a National Book Award winner, detail the pivotal events of King's public life - as well as life with his family - in a rich and stirring format. Johnson writes, "How soon we forget that King was not only a civil rights activist, but also this country's preeminent moral philosopher, a spiritual aspirant, a father and husband, and that these diverse roles - these multiple dimensions of his too brief life - were the foundations for his singular 'dream' that inspired millions worldwide." Here, then, we see Martin Luther King, Jr., in all his aspects: as husband and father, powerful preacher, courageous leader of the civil rights movement, martyr for the cause of racial justice, and finally American icon."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Pictorial works
• Baptists > United States > Clergy > Biography > Pictorial works
• Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
• African Americans > Biography > Pictorial works
• African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century > Pictorial works
• Civil rights workers > United States > Biography > Pictorial works

Note

• "A Bob Adelman book."

ISBN

• 0670892165
• 9780670892167

LCCN

00033389

OCLC

• ocm44075952
• 44075952
• SCSB-4006960

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries