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Sunday, April 6, 2008

· April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Death and How It Changed America, by Michael Eric Dyson (Basic Civitas, $24.95).

· King: Pilgrimage To the Mountaintop, by Harvard Sitkoff (Hill and Wang, $25).

· Voices: Reflections on An American Icon Through Words and Song, by the Choral Arts Society of Washington (Dalmatian Press, book and cd set $24.99).

· We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law, by Alexander Tsesis (Yale Univ., $35).

· What Would Martin Say?, by Clarence B. Jones and Joel Engel (Harper, $23.95).

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