Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassin
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Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassin
By James L. Swanson
Edition
Hardcover edition
PublisherScholasticImprintArthur A. Levine BooksISBN
9780545723336
Awards and HonorsMRLS Cream of the Crop - 2019 <br>
Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books for Children and Teens - 2019 <br>
<i>Kirkus</i> Best Books, Young Adult - 2018
Chasing King’s Killer: The Hunt for Martin Luther King Jr.’s Assassin
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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