{"product_id":"the-speech-the-story-behind-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-s-dream-updated-edition-paperback","title":"The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream (Updated Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYounge\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMartin Luther King Jr. delivered his powerful \"I Have a Dream\" speech on August 28, 1963. Sixty years later, the speech endures as a defining moment in the civil rights movement and remains a beacon in the ongoing struggle for racial equality.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis gripping book tells the story behind \"The Speech\" and sheds light on other key moments of the March on Washington, drawing on interviews with Clarence Jones, a close friend of and draft speechwriter for Martin Luther King Jr.; Joan Baez, who sang at the march; as well as Angela Davis and other leading civil rights luminaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow with a new introduction to mark the 60th anniversary of that historic day in Washington, \u003cem\u003eThe Speech\u003c\/em\u003e offers an essential analysis of King's words at a moment of urgent reckoning and renewed calls for justice and liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGary Younge\u003c\/strong\u003e is an award-winning author, broadcaster and a professor of sociology at the University of Manchester in England. Formerly a columnist at \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e he is an editorial board member of \u003cem\u003eThe\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eNation\u003c\/em\u003e magazine and the Alfred Knobler Fellow for Type Media Center. He has written five books: \u003cem\u003eAnother Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Speech: The Story Behind Martin Luther King's Dream\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWho Are We?: And Should it Matter in the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003e Stranger in a Strange Land: Travels in the Disunited States\u003c\/em\u003e, and\u003cem\u003e No Place Like Home: A Black Briton's Journey Through the Deep South\u003c\/em\u003e. He has also written for \u003cem\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGQ\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e, and made several radio and television documentaries on subjects ranging from gay marriage to Brexit. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 215\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.5 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 15, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53064112013645,"sku":"9781642599602","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0927\/3304\/7117\/files\/PAuCgt9UU79781642599602.webp?v=1766591729","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.us\/products\/the-speech-the-story-behind-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-s-dream-updated-edition-paperback","provider":"belfastbooks.us","version":"1.0","type":"link"}