A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches
His speeches stirred a generation to change--and outlined a practical way to economic freedom and true democracy. His words would help bring about the end of a brutally unequal system and would show a timeless method for achieving fairness and justice for all.
A CALL TO CONSCIENCE is a...
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His speeches stirred a generation to change--and outlined a practical way to economic freedom and true democracy. His words would help bring about the end of a brutally unequal system and would show a timeless method for achieving fairness and justice for all.<br>A CALL TO CONSCIENCE is a milestone collection of Dr.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446678094 (0446678090)
Publish date: January 1st 2002
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Academic,
Cultural,
African American,
Religion,
Philosophy,
American History,
College,
Theology,
Social Movements,
Social Justice
Date Published: July 1, 2009 Format: Print Source: Library Date Read: January 17 - 15, 2019 Blurb: A Call to Conscience is a milestone collection of Dr. King's most influential and best-known speeches. Compiled by Stanford historian Dr. Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project, and by...
If you're not familiar with King's actual writings and (especially) speeches, you will not regret anything you do to rectify that. 50 years later, we tend to hold a pretty abstract notion of the man, as a kind of saint or—as Cornell West is fond of saying—a Santa-Claus figure. We are aware that he g...