What Manner of Man (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lerone Bennett, Jr.
- First Published: 1964
- Time of Work: 1929–1968
- Setting: Atlanta; Birmingham, Montgomery, and Selma, Alabama; Memphis; Chicago; Washington, D.C.; Boston; Philadelphia; New Delhi, India; and Accra, Ghana
- Principal Characters: Martin Luther King, Jr., Martin Luther King, Sr., John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George Wallace, Ralph Abernathy, Reverend Benjamin Mays, Mahatma Gandhi
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: African Americans, Civil rights, Social action, Social reform, Racism, Leadership, Religion, Ministry or ministers, Public speaking, Nonviolence, Biography
- Locales: Ghana, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, Memphis, TN, Philadelphia, PA, Washington, D.C., Alabama, New Delhi, India
Form and Content
Lerone Bennett, Jr.’s What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929–1968 is written chronologically, using a variety of written sources, both primary and secondary, as well as extensive interviews with King himself, Coretta Scott King, and other family members of the slain leader. Divided into eight chapters, the book is heavily illustrated; it has an introduction written by Benjamin Mays, who influenced King to be a minister, and a preface written by the author in 1964, in which he calls his book an “interim assessment of the...
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