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"In the aftermath of Martin Luther King Jr.&#8217;s assassination, riots broke out in 110 cities across the country. For five days, Atlanta braced for chaos while preparing to host King&#8217;s funeral. An unlikely alliance of former student radicals, the middle-aged patrician mayor, the no-nonsense police chief, black ministers, white churchgoers, Atlanta&#8217;s business leaders, King&#8217;s grieving family members, and his stunned SCLC colleagues worked to keep Atlanta safe, honor a murdered hero, and host the tens of thousands who came to pay tribute. On April 9, 1968, 150,000 mourners took part in a daylong series of rituals honoring King&#8212;the largest funeral staged for a private U.S. citizen. King&#8217;s funeral was a dramatic event that took place against a national backdrop of war protests and presidential politics in a still-segregationist South, where Georgia&#8217;s governor surrounded the state capitol with troops and refused to lower the flag in acknowledgment of King&#8217;s death. Award-winning journalist Rebecca Burns delivers a riveting account of this landmark week and chronicles the convergence of politicians, celebrities, militants, and ordinary people who mourned in a peaceful Atlanta while other cities burned. Drawing upon copious research and dozens of interviews&#8212; from staffers at the White House who dealt with the threat of violence to members of King&#8217;s family and inner circle&#8212;Burns brings this dramatic story to life in vivid scenes that sweep readers from the mayor&#8217;s office to the White House to Coretta Scott King&#8217;s bedroom. Compelling and original, Burial for a King captures a defining moment in America&#8217;s history. It encapsulates King&#8217;s legacy, America&#8217;s shifting attitude toward race, and the emergence of Atlanta as a new kind of Southern city."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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