"We shall overcome one day:

On April 4. 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.. was shot. This day

would mark the death of one of the greatest leaders in the African American

struggle for equal rights.

This struggle had begun long before, with the very first ships that

crossed the Atlantic bearing slaves for the Arnerican colonies.

With vivid photographs, historic illustrations, and newspaper headlines,

The Day Martin Luther King, Jr. Was Shot describes the fight for civil rights,

from colonial times to the present--from abolition to desegregation, Nat Turner

to Malcolm X. Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad to Rosa Parks

and the MontgomeryY bus boycott.

As the civil rights movement did not begin with King. it has not ended

with his cleath. The book recounts gains made since that fateful day, including

the ground-breaking elections of L. Douglas Wilder as Governor of Virginia

and David Dinkins as Mayor of New York City.