All 5 Uses of
Martin Luther King Jr.
in
The Nickel Boys
- Martin Luther King at Zion Hill was the only album he owned and it never left the turntable.†
p. 11.1Martin Luther King = inspiring U.S. civil rights leader who campaigned against the segregation of blacks
- She'd bought that Martin Luther King record from a salesman outside the Richmond for a dime and it was the damnedest ten cents she'd ever handed over.†
p. 34.1
- Hard to picture the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. dosing Governor Orval Faubus with a couple of ounces of lye.†
p. 121.8 *
- She sent a letter telling Elwood it was a chest cold and included some newspaper articles she thought he'd like, an account of a Martin Luther King speech in Newark, New Jersey, and a big color spread on the space race.†
p. 154.8
- He thought long on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s letter from the Birmingham jail, and the powerful appeal the man composed from inside.†
p. 195.3
Definition:
inspiring U.S. civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of blacks; assassinated (1929-1968)