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Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King (English) Paperback Book
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9780807001127
- Book Title
- Why We Can't Wait
- ISBN
- 9780807001127
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Subject Area
- Citizenship
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Why We Can't Wait
- Item Height
- 216 mm
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Item Width
- 140 mm
- Item Weight
- 261 g
- Number of Pages
- 208 Pages
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Dr. King's best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963 On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city's streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders' criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, Letter from Birmingham Jail, was widely circulated and published in numerous periodicals. After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter inWhy We Can't Wait,which tells the story of African American activism in the spring and summer of 1963. During this time, Birmingham, Alabama, was perhaps the most racially segregated city in the United States, but the campaign launched by King, Fred Shuttlesworth, and others demonstrated to the world the power of nonviolent direct action. Often applauded as King's most incisive and eloquent book,Why We Can't Waitrecounts the Birmingham campaign in vivid detail, while underscoring why 1963 was such a crucial year for the civil rights movement. Disappointed by the slow pace of school desegregation and civil rights legislation, King observed that by 1963-during which the country celebrated the one-hundredth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation-Asia and Africa were moving with jetlike speed toward gaining political independence but we still creep at a horse-and-buggy pace. King examines the history of the civil rights struggle, noting tasks that future generations must accomplish to bring about full equality, and asserts that African Americans have already waited over three centuries for civil rights and that it is time to be proactive- For years now, I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This 'Wait' has almost always meant 'Never.' We must come to see, with one of our distinguished jurists, that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'
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Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-13
9780807001127
eBay Product ID (ePID)
11046394738
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Citizenship
Publication Name
Why We Can't Wait
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2011
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216 mm
Item Width
140 mm
Item Weight
261 g
Volume
4
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
Series Title
King Legacy
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