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Burial for a King - by Rebecca Burns (Paperback)

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  • A compelling, original, and illuminating account chronicling the historic week between Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and his funeral.
  • Author(s): Rebecca Burns
  • 256 Pages
  • History, United States

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A compelling, original, and highly readable account of the landmark week between Martin Luther King, Jr.'s, assassination and his funeral.



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A compelling, original, and illuminating account chronicling the historic week between Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and his funeral.

In the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, riots broke out in 110 cities across the country. For five days, Atlanta braced for chaos while preparing to host King's funeral. An unlikely alliance of former student radicals, the middle-aged patrician mayor, the no-nonsense police chief, black ministers, white churchgoers, Atlanta's business leaders, King's grieving family members, and his stunned SCLC colleagues worked to keep Atlanta safe, honor a murdered hero, and host the tens of thousands who came to pay tribute.

On April 9, 1968, 150,000 mourners took part in a daylong series of rituals honoring King--the largest funeral staged for a private U.S. citizen. King's funeral was a dramatic event that took place against a national backdrop of war protests and presidential politics in a still-segregationist South, where Georgia's governor surrounded the state capitol with troops and refused to lower the flag in acknowledgment of King's death. Award-winning journalist Rebecca Burns delivers a riveting account of this landmark week and chronicles the convergence of politicians, celebrities, militants, and ordinary people who mourned in a peaceful Atlanta while other cities burned. Drawing upon copious research and dozens of interviews-- from staffers at the White House who dealt with the threat of violence to members of King's family and inner circle--Burns brings this dramatic story to life in vivid scenes that sweep readers from the mayor's office to the White House to Coretta Scott King's bedroom. Compelling and original, Burial for a King captures a defining moment in America's history. It encapsulates King's legacy, America's shifting attitude toward race, and the emergence of Atlanta as a new kind of Southern city.



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"A compelling look at a pivotal time." -Booklist

"A pertinent, you-are-there historical page-turner with a strong moral message." -Kirkus

"Burial for a King is a gripping piece of work. Some of Rebecca Burns's voices belong to friends, which made it haunting, but many of them were fresh discoveries to me. This book is a great tribute."
-Taylor Branch, author of the America in the King Years trilogy

"Now, finally, we can see what couldn't be seen and know what couldn't be known about the way Atlanta held together to honor and bury its most celebrated and controversial son. Day by day, hour by hour, step by step, the behind-the-scenes dramaturgy of the national week of mourning for Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. comes vividly alive in Burial for a King. Even as the national mood swung wildly from catatonic to chaotic, Rebecca Burns deftly shows, the suites and streets of Atlanta found common ground in a calming field that explains Atlanta's modern-day transcendence."
-Hank Klibanoff, co-author of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
winner of the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in History

"Rebecca Burns is a gifted storyteller with a keen understanding of the small details that make history so interesting, and in Burial for a King, she has woven dozens of interviews into a fast-paced narrative so vivid and poignant that you may catch yourself feeling almost as if you are eavesdropping. The book focuses on a single week in 1968--a week that happens to include some of the most painful days of my entire life--and the fact that I have difficulty reading its pages is actually a testament to the power of the author's uncommon skill. Burns literally has opened a window into the past."
--Andrew Young who has served as Mayor of Atlanta, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, President of the National Council of Churches USA, and was a member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .8 Inches (D)
Weight: .75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: United States
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 256
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Theme: State & Local
Format: Paperback
Author: Rebecca Burns
Language: English
Street Date: September 7, 2013
TCIN: 93781252
UPC: 9781439130575
Item Number (DPCI): 247-22-5709
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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