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Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassin

By James L. Swanson
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Scholastic Imprint Arthur A. Levine Books ISBN

9780545723336

Awards and Honors MRLS Cream of the Crop - 2019
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - 2019
Kirkus Best Books, Young Adult - 2018

Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassin

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Discrimination: Reference/Discussion,Violence: Mild Violence,Violence: War/Harsh Realities of War

James L. Swanson weaves together Martin Luther King Jr.'s tumultuous last year and the path taken by a mysterious, lifelong criminal—James Earl Ray—a prison escapee who ended the celebrated civil rights leader's life. Epilogue. Places to visit. For further study. Federal holiday chronology. Time line of James Earl Ray’s arrest record. Source notes. Bibliography. Index. Black-and-white photographs, reproductions, maps, and diagrams.
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