Threads of Peace: How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World | TheBookSeekers

Threads of Peace: How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World


School year: Year 10, Year 5, Year 6, Year 7, Year 8, Year 9

No. of pages 336

Published: 2022

Great for age 9-15 years

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Inviting and original. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Mohandas Gandhi and Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. both shook and changed the world in their quest for peace among all people, but what threads connected these great activists together in their shared goal of social revolution? A lawyer and activist, tiny of stature with giant ideas, in British-ruled India at the beginning of the 20th century. A minister from Georgia with a thunderous voice and hopes for peace at the height of the civil rights movement in America. Born more than a half-century apart, with seemingly little in common except one shared wish, both would go on to be icons of peaceful resistance and human decency. Both preached love for all human beings, regardless of race or religion. Both believed that freedom and justice were won by not one, but many. Both met their ends in the most unpeaceful of waysassassination. But what led them down the path of peace? How did their experiences parallel...and diverge? Threads of Peace keenly examines and celebrates these extraordinary activists lives, the threads that connect them, and the threads of peace they laid throughout the world, for us to pick up, and weave together.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 4th grade-9th grade.

This book has been graded for interest at 9 years.

There are 336 pages in this book. This book was published in 2022 by Simon & Schuster .

Uma Krishnaswami is the author of several books for children. She was born in New Delhi, India, and now lives in Aztec, New Mexico.

 

This book features the following characters:

Martin Luther King
Dr Martin Luther King Jr was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining nonviolent and peaceful tactics even when his life was threatened, King was also an advocate for the poor and spoke out against racial and economic injustice until his death from an assassin's bullet in 1968.

Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in 1869 in British-occupied India. Though he studied law in London and spent his early adulthood in South Africa, he remained devoted to his homeland and spent the later part of his life working to make India an independent nation. Calling for non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights around the world. Gandhi is recognized internationally as a symbol of hope, peace, and freedom.