Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement

<p>Martin Luther King Jr is one of the iconic figures of 20th century history and one of the most influential and important in the American Civil Rights Movement; John Kirk here presents the life of Martin Luther King in the context of that movement placing him at the center of the Afro-American fight for equality and recognition.</p><p>This book combines the insights from two fields of study seeking to combine the top down; national federal policy-oriented approach to the movement with the bottom up local grassroots activism approach to demonstrate how these different levels of activism intersect and interact with each other. </p>