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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.


By Clayborne Carson

Reading Level: High School, Adult
Genre: Non Fiction
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing 2001

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Carson, director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers, has pieced together an incomplete study of King's life by supplementing his extant autobiographies (e.g., Stride Toward Freedom and Where Do We Go from Here) with previously unpublished and published writings, interviews and speeches.

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