Martin and Bobby : a journey toward justice

Author

Claire Rudolf Murphy

Call Number

• J 323.1196 MURP (CEN, EAS)

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Publication Information

Chicago, Illinois : Chicago Review Press Incorporated, [2019]

Physical Description

ix, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Audience

Ages 10 and up.

Summary

"Martin and Bobby follows the lives and final days of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy, showing how and where their work intersected and how their initially wary relationship evolved from challenging and testing one another to finally "arriving in the same place" as allies fighting poverty and racism"--

Contents

• Foreword / by Congressman John Lewis
• Foreword / by Kerry Kennedy
• "I think we can do better"
• "I've been to the mountaintop"
• "What we really stand for"
• "When is this violence going to stop?"
• "To whom much is given, much is asked"
• "Until justice runs down like water"
• "The time has come for this nation to fulfill its promise"
• "I have a dream"
• "A ripple of hope"
• "Do they know yet?"
• "What we need is compassion toward each other"
• "A time of shame and sorrow"
• "We still have Bobby Kennedy"
• "Something died in all of America"
• "America is not yet finished."