Threads of Peace
How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World
New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, 2021.
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 325 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
"A look at the lives of Ghandi and Martin Luther King Jr. and how they were led to seek revolution through peace"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Threads of peace: the right to take a seat -- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. A place of warm breezes ; The ocean of life ; Obedience and disobedience ; Questions large and small ; A lawyer abroad ; In search of truth ; Marching for freedom ; New cloth, frayed fabric ; "I must now tear myself away" -- Martin Luther King Jr. The curtain of discrimination ; Message of truth ; Don't ride the buses ; Against the Constitution ; Actions louder than words ; In Gandhi's footsteps ; After India ; Knowing the enemy ; Bombingham ; "Free at last, free at last" ; Champion of peace ; Bloody Sunday ; No compromise ; "Precious Lord, take my hand" -- When the thread break. The assassins ; Spinning new threads of peace.
Subjects:
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Juvenile literature.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature.
Statesmen -- India -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Nonviolence -- Juvenile literature.
Pacifists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Statesmen -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Indians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Juvenile literature.
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature.
Statesmen -- India -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Nonviolence -- Juvenile literature.
Pacifists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Statesmen -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Indians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Target Audience: Grades 7-9
ISBN:
9781481416788
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C SOCIAL SCI Kri | Eastover | Children's NonFiction | In |
"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-311) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-311) and index.