At 10:33 a.m. on April 3, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., landed in Memphis on a flight from Atlanta. A march that he had led in Memphis six days earlier to support striking garbage workers had turned into a riot, and King was returning to prove that he could lead a violence-free protest. King’s reputation as a credible, non-violent leader of the civil rights movement was in jeopardy just as he was launching the Poor Peoples Campaign. He was calling for massive civil disobedience in the nation’s capital to pressure lawmakers to enact sweeping anti-poverty legislation. But King didn’t live […]
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David Rubenstein on "The American Story" | 2019 National Book Festival
Marie Arana on "Silver, Sword, and Stone" | 2019 National Book Festival
Henry Louis Gates Jr. on "Stony the Road" and "Dark Sky" | 2019 National Book Festival
David Treuer on "The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee" | 2019 National Book Festival
Beth Macy on "DopeSick" | 2019 National Book Festival
Jarrett J. Krosoczka on "Hey, Kiddo" | 2019 National Book Festival
José Andrés on "Vegetables Unleashed" and "We Fed an Island" | 2019 National Book Festival
Sarah Vowell | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series | University of Michigan
Sarah Vowell | Penny Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series | University of Michigan
Rebecca and Floyd Skloot on The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Sue William Silverman on "Because I Remember Terror..." at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
Keith S. Wilson on Fieldnotes on "Ordinary Love" at the 2019 AWP Book Fair
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