LEADER 04610oam 2200769I 450 001 9910960836703321 005 20251116211349.0 010 $a1-317-87649-0 010 $a1-138-13100-8 010 $a1-315-83831-1 010 $a1-317-87650-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315838311 035 $a(CKB)3710000000126720 035 $a(EBL)1710572 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001294644 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11779517 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001294644 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11336022 035 $a(PQKB)11487810 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1710572 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1710572 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10884122 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL618252 035 $a(OCoLC)881417422 035 $a(OCoLC)897462983 035 $a(OCoLC)884588638 035 $a(FINmELB)ELB138372 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000126720 100 $a20180706e20132005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMartin Luther King Jr. /$fJohn A. Kirk 210 1$aOxon [England] :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (245 p.) 225 1 $aProfiles in Power 300 $aFirst published 2005 by Pearson Education. 311 08$a1-306-87001-1 311 08$a0-582-41431-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Martin Luther King Jr; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: King in Context; 1 Becoming a Leader, 1929-56; Civil Rights in the Mid 1950s; The Origins of the Montgomery Bus Boycott; King's Early Years; The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA); White Montgomery and the Failure of Compromise; Taking a Stand: The Road to Desegregation; 2 Catching Up, 1956-61; King on the National and the International Stage; The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 327 $aThe 1960 Sit-ins and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)King and the Kennedys; The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) and the 1961 Freedom Rides; 3 Forming a Strategy, 1961-3; The Albany Movement; King's Defeat in Albany, 1961; King's Defeat in Albany, 1962; Learning from Albany, Preparing for Birmingham; The Birmingham Campaign; Birmingham and the Children's Crusade; 4 Glory Bound, 1963-4; The March on Washington; Back to Birmingham: The Sixteenth Street Church Bombing; The St. Augustine Campaign 327 $aThe 1964 Civil Rights Act, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) and the Nobel Peace PrizeKing and the FBI; 5 A Movement in Transition, 1965-6; The Selma Campaign; Bloody Sunday; King's 'Tuesday Turnaround'; The Selma to Montgomery March, the 1965 Voting Rights Act and the Chicago Campaign; The Meredith March Against Fear and the Rise of Black Power; 6 New Directions, 1966-8; The Chicago Open Housing Marches; King's Defeat in Chicago; King and the Vietnam War; The Poor People's Campaign (PPC); The Memphis Sanitation Workers' Strike and King's Assassination 327 $aConclusion: Martin and the MovementBibliographical Essay; Index 330 $aCombining the latest insights from KIng biographies and movement histories, this book provides an up-to-date critical analysis of the relationship between King and the wider civil rights movement. Delivering a fresh perspective on the relationship between 'the man and the movement', Kirk argues that it is the interactionbetween national and local movement concerns that is essential to understanding King's leadership and black activism in the 1950s and 1960s. Kirk examines King's strengths and his limitations, and weighs the role that king played in then movement alongside the contribution 410 0$aProfiles in power (London, England) 606 $aAfrican American civil rights workers$vBiography 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBaptists$zUnited States$xClergy$vBiography 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xHistory$y20th century 615 0$aAfrican American civil rights workers 615 0$aCivil rights movements$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory 615 0$aBaptists$xClergy 676 $a323.1/196/073/092 676 $a323.1196073092 700 $aKirk$b John A.$f1970-,$0881179 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960836703321 996 $aMartin Luther King Jr$94482724 997 $aUNINA