In My Dream of Martin Luther King, Faith Ringgold brings her unique
artistic sensibility to the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the history of
the Civil Rights movement.
Narrating the book in her own voice, Ms. Ringgold describes a dream she has
about Martin Luther King. It's a dream that includes scenes of segregation and
protest--which, in a brilliant leap of imagination, she imagines King
experiencing as a child--and scenes from King's adult life, from the
Montgomery bus boycott to the March on Washington to his assassination. Framing
this dream is a uniquely personal vision of Ms. Ringgold's own in which she
visualizes the people of the world gathering in King's memory to trade in their
prejudice, fear, and hate for hope, peace, and love--the fulfillment of King's
dream of nonviolent social change. Cover excerpt, My Dream of Martin Luther
King
by Faith Ringgold, Crown Publishers, New York
1995.
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