Martin Luther King

by Anita Ganeri

Published 14 August 2003
20TH-CENTURY HISTORY MAKERS is an important new series of biographies aimed at introducing older children to the most important historical figures of the 20th century. Through lively, straightforward text and both black and white and colour photographs, young readers can find out about the events of the subjects' lives and how they impacted - for both good and evil - on the world at large.

A comprehensive biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., which points out how effectively he used nonviolence as a weapon against hatred and injustice.