Burial for a King : Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week That Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation Hardcover - 2011
by Burns, Rebecca
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- Title Burial for a King : Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week That Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation
- Author Burns, Rebecca
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 244
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Scribner, New York
- Date 2011-01-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # GRP61914256
- ISBN 9781439130544 / 143913054X
- Weight 0.89 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.13 x 0.91 in (23.60 x 15.57 x 2.31 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects United States - Race relations - History -, Atlanta (Ga.) - Race relations - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010029980
- Dewey Decimal Code 323.092
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Summary
On April 9, 1968, 150,000 mourners took part in a daylong series of rituals honoring Kingthe largest funeral staged for a private U.S. citizen. Kings funeral was a dramatic event that took place against a national backdrop of war protests and presidential politics in a still-segregationist South, where Georgias governor surrounded the state capitol with troops and refused to lower the flag in acknowledgment of Kings death. Award-winning journalist Rebecca Burns delivers a riveting account of this landmark week and chronicles the convergence of politicians, celebrities, militants, and ordinary people who mourned in a peaceful Atlanta while other cities burned. Drawing upon copious research and dozens of interviews from staffers at the White House who dealt with the threat of violence to members of Kings family and inner circleBurns brings this dramatic story to life in vivid scenes that sweep readers from the mayors office to the White House to Coretta Scott Kings bedroom. Compelling and original, Burial for a King captures a defining moment in Americas history. It encapsulates Kings legacy, Americas shifting attitude toward race, and the emergence of Atlanta as a new kind of Southern city.