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Current Feed ContentThe Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jar Edited by Clayborne Carson Publishers: Abascus Paperback; 366 pagesThis is anautobiography that is composed from the speeches as well as otherautobiographical essays that Martin Luther King, Jr., gave and wrote while hewas alive. The editor of this magnificent work simply reconstructed them to fitinto an autobiography that is captures the real Martin Luther King Jr. It ischronological in the sense that it begins with bits and pieces of his childhood(a precocious child who skipped two years of high school to begin college atthe age of 15), then move on and on...The Big Read: ROOTS - A bridge between Africans and the diasporaAlexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921–February 10, 1992) was an American writer. He is best known as the author of Roots: The Saga of an American Family, and of The Autobiography of Malcolm X, the latter of which he wrote in collaboration with Malcolm X. Early life Born in Ithaca, New York, in 1921, Haley spent his first five years in Henning, Tennessee in an African American family mixed with Irish and Cherokee ancestry with his 2 younger brothers. Haley was born to Simon Haley and... |