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Text design and composition by Kim Arney
Cover design: Bob Kosturko
Cover art: © Ernest C. Withers, courtesy of the WITHERS FAMILY TRUST
Insert photo credits: Images 1, 2, 5, 6, and 11 © Ernest C. Withers Trust, courtesy Withers Family Trust. Images 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15 © Preservation and Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rosenbloom, Joseph, author.
Title: Redemption : Martin Luther King Jr.’s last 31 hours / Joseph Rosenbloom.
Description: Boston : Beacon Press, [2018] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017024226 (print) | LCCN 2017029763 (ebook) | ISBN 9780807083406 (ebook) | ISBN 9780807083383 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929–1968—Assassination. | African Americans—Biography. | Civil rights workers—United States—Biography. | Baptists—United States—Clergy—Biography. | African Americans—Civil rights—History—20th century. | Civil rights movements—United States—History—20th century.
Classification: LCC E185.97.K5 (ebook) | LCC E185.97.K5 R598 2018 (print) | DDC 323.092 [B] —dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017024226