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April 4, 1968 by Michael Eric Dyson

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Also by Michael Eric Dyson:

Tears We Cannot Stop, January 2017
Hardcover / e-Book
Who's Afraid Of Post-Blackness?, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Can You Hear Me Now?, May 2009
Hardcover
April 4, 1968, April 2008
Hardcover
Know What I Mean?, July 2007
Hardcover
Debating Race, February 2007
Hardcover
Come Hell or High Water, March 2006
Hardcover
Pride, February 2006
Hardcover
Is Bill Cosby Right?, February 2006
Paperback / e-Book
Is Bill Crosby Right?, April 2005
Hardcover

April 4, 1968
Michael Eric Dyson

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America

Basic Civitas Books
April 2008
On Sale: March 31, 2008
290 pages
ISBN: 0465002129
EAN: 9780465002122
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction Biography

To commemorate the fortieth anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, America's most versatile and vital cultural critic reexamines King's importance and influence, and the ways in which his death changed America.

On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 P.M., while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King--the prophet for racial and economic justice in America--ended his final public speech by saying, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land."

Acclaimed public intellectual and best-selling author, Michael Eric Dyson uses the fortieth anniversary of King's assassination as a starting point for a comprehensive reevaluation of the fate of America, specifically Black America, over the ensuing years. Dyson ambitiously, and controversially, investigates the ways in which we as a people have made it to the Promised Land that King spoke of and shines a bright light on the many areas that we still have a long way to go.

Rather than only looking back, April 4, 1968 takes a sweeping 360-degree view of King's death--remembering all the toil, triumph, and tribulation that led to that fateful date while anticipating the ways in which the legacy of King's death will affect the future of this country.

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