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Author:

Krishnaswami, Uma, 1956- author.

Title:

Threads of peace : how Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. changed the world / Uma Krishnaswami.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Atheneum Books for Young Readers,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Gandhi,--Mahatma,--1869-1948--Juvenile literature.
King, Martin Luther,--Jr.,--1929-1968--Juvenile literature.
Statesmen--India--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.
Nonviolence--Juvenile literature.
Pacifists--Juvenile literature.--Juvenile literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-311, 314-321) and index. "A Caitlyn Dlouhy book"-- title page.

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 -- Martin Luther King Jr. -- The curtain of discrimination -- Message of truth -- Don't ride the buses -- Against the Constitution -- Actionds 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 threads break -- The assassins -- Spinning new threads of peace.

Summary:

"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.

ISBN:

1481416790
9781481416795
1481416782
9781481416788

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1135914078

LCCN:

2019043811

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