Moneta Sleet (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Wraps. Condition: Good. Moneta Sleet. Jr. (Cover photograph) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. [4], 76 pages. Illustrations. Some cover wear. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968. Born in Atlanta, King is best known for advancing civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, tactics his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi helped inspire. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted and imprisoned of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting. Sentenced to 99 years in prison for King's murder. Ray served 29 years of his sentence and died from hepatitis in 1998 while in prison. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s love and service to humanity is vividly portrayed in this extensive collection of photographs documenting his part in the civil rights movement. Action, progress, and power are revealed with images of the meetings, marches, protests, and speeches, while touching snapshots with his family and trusted aides capture the public and private personas of this important historical figure. Complete with new photos and captions, this pictorial archive displays his international popularity and effectively demonstrates his sacrifices and contributions to peace.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. In excellent condition. Clean interior and of wear and tear. The binding is tight. The dust jacket fits the book nicely. Some light wear from normal use.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Second Printing. Square quarto, 184 pages, cloth With an Introduction by Gordon Parks, Sr.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. Stated First Edition. Quarto. 34cm. Publisher's ochre cloth boards titled in copper gilt to spine. Dustjacket. 184pp. Light scuffing to corners and some minor cosmetic soiling of the cloth, in a clean, bright dustjacket with some incidental creasing to spine ends and extremities, and the residue of an old price label to the upper right corner of the front panel. A very good copy indeed. Internally clean, lavishly illustrated thorughout with high quality reproductions of Sleet's photography. A posthumous retrospective of the ground-breaking journalistic work of Moneta Sleet Jr.; the first African-American photographer to win a Pulitzer Prize for his work.