Threads of peace : how Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. changed the world / Uma Krishnaswami.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2021]Edition: First editionDescription: 325 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781481416788
- 1481416782
- 9781481416795
- 1481416790
- How Mohandas Gandhi and Reverend King changed the world
- Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948 -- Juvenile literature
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature
- Statesmen -- India -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Nonviolence -- Juvenile literature
- Pacifists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Political activists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Indians -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"Inviting and original." -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
Mohandas Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook and changed the world in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads connected these great activists together in their shared goal of social revolution?
A lawyer and activist, tiny of stature with giant ideas, in British-ruled India at the beginning of the 20th century.
A minister from Georgia with a thunderous voice and hopes for peace at the height of the civil rights movement in America.
Born more than a half-century apart, with seemingly little in common except one shared wish, both would go on to be icons of peaceful resistance and human decency. Both preached love for all human beings, regardless of race or religion. Both believed that freedom and justice were won by not one, but many. Both met their ends in the most unpeaceful of ways--assassination.
But what led them down the path of peace? How did their experiences parallel...and diverge? Threads of Peace keenly examines and celebrates these extraordinary activists' lives, the threads that connect them, and the threads of peace they laid throughout the world, for us to pick up, and weave together.
"A Caitlyn Dlouhy book"
Includes bibliographical references (pages 310-311) and index.
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 ; "I must now tear myself away" -- Martin Luther King Jr. The curtain of discrimination ; Message of truth ; Don't ride the buses ; Against the Constitution ; Actions 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 thread break. The assassins ; Spinning new threads of peace.
"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.
Grades 7-9. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.
Ages 9-14. Atheneum Books for Young Readers.