Overview
Martin Luther King's 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech, King declared that segregation was "on its deathbed" and that the movement had already achieved significant milestones. Although the civil rights movement had won many battles in the struggle for r
- | Author: Timothy J. Minchin
- | Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- | Publication Date: Mar 02, 2011
- | Number of Pages: 424 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0813129788
- | ISBN-13: 9780813129785
