Activities

"In this fast-paced and immersive adaptation of Jonathan Eig’s groundbreaking New York Times bestseller readers will meet a Dr. King like no other: a committed radical whose demands for racial and economic justice remain as urgent today as they were in his lifetime, a minister wrestling with his human frailties and dark moods, a citizen hunted by his own government." -provided by Amazon

"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome this violent act and complete Meredith's walk." -provided by publisher

"A stirring memoir of growing up Black in a town at the epicenter of the fight for freedom, equality, and human rights" -Provided by the publisher

"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality" -provided by the publisher 

"Historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects . .. [the] 'national myth-making' [surrounding the civil rights movement], teasing apart the accepted stories to show them in a. . . different light . . . Theoharis challenges nine key aspects of the fable to reveal the diversity of people, especially women and young people, who led the movement; the work and disruption it took; the role of the media and 'polite racism' in maintaining injustice; and the immense barriers and repression activists faced" -provided by publisher