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Martin Luther King (Leaders and Witnesses)
Martin Luther King - Leaders and Witnesses tells the compelling story of the pastor theologian scholar orator civil rights leader and martyr. Similar to Gandhi King led a freedom movement of the oppressed through the way of nonviolence spiritually grounded and firm in its renunciation of violence but radical in its pursuit of justice. King preached prayed lectured wrote and marched ... more »in living out his faith. Arrested 29 times he and his family faced death threats many times. It was in support of the sanitation workers' strike in Memphis that he was gunned down by an assassin's bullet. the nation and the world mourned the death of the 39 year old martyred prophet. contains extensive passages from King's writings that illustrate his nonviolent faith and how he lived it out in his ministry« less