Martin Luther King JR (Heroes of America (Abdo)) [Library Binding]

Herb Boyd (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2005 | Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up | Series: Heroes of America (Abdo)

This latest addition to "The Heinle Reading Library" teaches students the life stories of great American heroes while enhancing reading skills. By providing students with this important foundation, "The Heinle Reading Library: Biography Collection" offers a unique approach to teaching American culture while expanding fluency.

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Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Library Binding: 240 pages
• Publisher: Abdo Publishing Company (January 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1596792582
• ISBN-13: 978-1596792586
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,474,587 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Herb Boyd is a journalist, activist, teacher, and has authored or edited 22 books, including his most recent one, Civil Rights: Yesterday & Today. His book Baldwin's Harlem, a biography of James Baldwin, was a finalist for a 2009 NAACP Image Award. In 1995, with Robert Allen, he was a recipient of an American Book Award for Brotherman--The Odyssey of Black Men in America, an anthology. We Shall Overcome, a media-fusion book with narration by the late Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, is used in classrooms all over the world, as is his Autobiography of a People and The Harlem Reader. His articles can be found in such publications as The Black Scholar, The Final Call, the Amsterdam News, Cineaste, Downbeat, and The Network Journal, among others.
Among the highlights of his remarkable journalistic career was an invitation to fly on Air Force One with President Obama, whom he has interviewed on several occasions.
Over the last decade or so, Boyd has scripted several documentaries, including several with Keith Beauchamp on cold cases of martyrs from the civil rights era that were shown on Biography Channel and TV One. With filmmaker Eddie Harris, he was the writer on three documentaries--Trek to the Holy Land, Cri de Coeur (Cry from the Heart), and Slap the Donkey, that tracks the Rev. Al Sharpton's presidential bid in 2004. The latter film was recently selected to be screened at the Montreal Film Festival in 2010. Boyd is also a frequent guest on national television and radio shows, as well as a keynote speaker at many functions sponsored by noted community and college organizations, where his commentaries on African American culture and politics have earned him an increasingly large audience and popularity. For more than forty years, he has taught at institutions of higher learning. Currently, he teaches at the College of New Rochelle in the Bronx and at City College New York, and is also a national and international correspondent for Free Speech TV.org, a media company that specializes in Internet television.

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This review is from: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Heroes of America Series) (Hardcover)

Even as a young boy, Martin showed remarkable promise. Everyone who knew him thought he would grow up to be someone special. But nobody could have guessed that the bright, inquisitive little boy was going to lead the movement that changed America.