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Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

King's journey to becoming the leading figure in the American civil rights movement

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Bedtime Biography: The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. is a book in which Martin Luther King, Jr. tells his life story. It is an inspiring and educational read that gives insight into the mind of one of America's most famous civil rights leaders.

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Turn to any period in human history, and you’ll see a lot of turmoil and upheaval. But very few eras can rival the twentieth century for sheer degree of change.

Among those who experienced that change firsthand were African Americans, whose status in the United States shifted tremendously in the second half of the twentieth century. And no name is more closely associated with those changes than that of Martin Luther King Jr.

What was the story behind the man who helped define the civil-rights movement in the US? Settle in, get comfortable, and listen to the autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Chapter 1

On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. was born into a devout Baptist family. They lived in Atlanta, Georgia. The community into which he was born labored under two heavy burdens. The first was racism, and the segregation that came with it in the American South. The second was the Great Depression, which was just taking hold when King was born.

King’s neighborhood, however, enjoyed relative peace and security – if there was little wealth among its working-class families, there was also little crime. And most of King’s neighbors were people of strong Christian faith – as were the Kings.

Chapter 2

King was a precocious student. He skipped a total of two grades in school and graduated when he was just 15. He then entered Atlanta’s Morehouse College, a historic Black men’s college, where he first encountered an approach to injustice that would definitively shape his life as an activist and Black community leader. This approach was nonviolent resistance, and it would become a cornerstone of King’s philosophy.

Nonviolent resistance has several roots, but King found it through Henry David Thoreau’s essay “On Civil Disobedience.” In it, Thoreau wrote of his refusal to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican-American War and the spread of slavery throughout the United States. King became convinced that peaceful but unyielding resistance to evil was the only constructive way to bring about change for African Americans.

Chapter 3

On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was traveling on a Montgomery city bus. When a white man boarded the bus, the driver instructed her to give up her front seat and move to the back. Parks refused to move. This small but powerful gesture of resistance would kick off an entire movement to gain Black Americans the rights that other citizens enjoyed.

The arrest of Rosa Parks proved a pivotal event in Martin Luther King Jr.’s development as a civil-rights leader. A meeting of Black ministers and civic leaders was immediately called, where it was agreed that the best way to further the momentum of Rosa Parks’s action was to organize a boycott of the entirety of Montgomery’s racist bus system.

Chapter 4

Martin Luther King Jr.’s profile rose with the rising tide of the civil-rights movement. In 1957, Time magazine did a cover story on the movement, featuring King as its spokesman; a few years later, they declared King 1963’s Man of the Year. And, in 1964, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

King was aware that he was becoming a symbol, and he was not always comfortable with it. In particular, he felt pressured to live up to the high standards that people had set for him, worrying that, in his words, “a man who hits the peak at 27 has a tough job ahead.”

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Narrated by Montae Russell

Music by Federico Coderoni

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998) is a firsthand account of the life and work of one of the most important figures in recent American history: Martin Luther King Jr. Assembled from his writings, letters, interviews, and speeches, this autobiography tells of King’s journey from Christian minister in the segregated South to the leading figure of the civil rights movement.

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Über den Autor

Martin Luther King Jr. was a religious leader, activist, and key figure in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. An ordained Christian minister, he led the Montgomery bus protests and the March on Washington and was involved in organizing numerous other civil rights campaigns across the United States. In 1964, he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his life’s work. He was assassinated in 1968.

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