Burns, Stewart

Overview

Works:	19 works in 75 publications in 2 languages and 6,428 library holdings
Genres:	History Biographies Sources Drama Biographical television programs Made-for-TV movies Film adaptations Archives Prison films Historical films
Roles:	Author, Editor, htt, Scenarist
Classifications:	E185.97.K5, 323.092

Publication Timeline

Most widely held works about Stewart Burns

Boycott by Clark Johnson( Visual )

Most widely held works by Stewart Burns

Daybreak of freedom : the Montgomery bus boycott by Stewart Burns( )

12 editions published between 1997 and 2012 in English and held by 1,998 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The Montgomery bus boycott was a formative moment in twentieth-century history: a harbinger of the African American freedom movement, a springboard for the leadership of Martin Luther King Jr., and a crucial step in the struggle to realize the American dream of liberty and equality for all. In Daybreak of Freedom, Stewart Burns presents a groundbreaking documentary history of the boycott. Using an extraordinary array of more than one hundred original documents, he crafts a compelling and comprehensive account of this celebrated year-long protest of racial segregation."--Jacket

Social movements of the 1960s : searching for democracy by Stewart Burns( Book )

12 editions published in 1990 in English and held by 1,460 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Examines the successes, failures and influences of some of the various social movements of the 1960s

To the mountaintop : Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968 by Stewart Burns( Book )

16 editions published between 2003 and 2005 in English and held by 1,429 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"More than a biography, To the Mountaintop is the history of a turbulent epoch that changed the course of American and world history. Moral warrior and nonviolent apostle; man of God rocked by fury, fear, and guilt; rational thinker driven by emotional and spiritual truth - Martin Luther King Jr. struggled to reconcile these divisions in his soul. Here is an intimate narrative of his intellectual and spiritual journey from cautious liberal, to reluctant radical, to righteous revolutionary. Stewart Burns draws not only on King's speeches, letters, writings, and well-reported strategizing and activities, but also on previously underutilized oral histories of key meetings and events, which present a dramatic account of King and the movement in the crucial years from 1955 to 1968"--Jacket

A people's charter : the pursuit of rights in America by James MacGregor Burns( Book )

9 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in English and held by 1,064 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Published on the 200th anniversary of the ratification of the Bill of Rights, this is a sweeping chronicle of the struggle for political and economic justice. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James MacGregor Burns and Stewart Burns trace America's tenuous hold on freedom from the time of the 13 colonies' exclusionist voting practices to Ronald Reagan's campaign against the First Amendment reinforced by private "new right" groups and fundamentalists. They also analyze antislavery and workers' struggles, the detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, McCarthy-era abuses, civil rights, women's activism, and encroachments by the FBI on personal freedoms. The authors envisage a "Great Majority" dependent on women's leadership coming to power and establishing a massive rights program, and conclude that rights measures in the United States have been "too little, too late, too short-lived." ISBN 0-394-57763-9: $30.00

The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr by Martin Luther King( Book )

8 editions published between 1997 and 2020 in English and held by 42 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Birth of a new age : December 1955 - December 1956 by Martin Luther King( Book )

2 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

We will stand here till we die : freedom movement shakes America, shapes Martin Luther King Jr. by Stewart Burns( Book )

1 edition published in 2013 in English and held by 7 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Burns sets the scene for the events of 1963, describing Martin Luther King's development from his debut on the national stage during the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-1956 through the lunch counter sit-ins, the freedom rides, Bayard Rustin's role in the development of King's views on nonviolence, the failures of the Albany movement, James Meredith's effort to enroll at the University of Mississippi, and the machinations and prevarications of the Kennedy White House on civil rights

The populist movement and the cooperative : the politics of non-reformist reform by Stewart Burns( )

2 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Wobblies : organized to unite the working class, the Industrial Workers of the World helped secure the First Amendment rights in the face of persistent government persecution by James MacGregor Burns( )

1 edition published in 1992 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King( Book )

in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Volume 5 of the planned 14 volume series, brings us to a pivotal moment in the career of Dr King. After a visit to India in 1959 he revitalised the Southern Christian Leadership Conference & propelled himself to a leading role in the renewed activism of 1960

To the Mountaintop by Stewart Burns( Book )

2 editions published between 2003 and 2014 in English and held by 2 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968

Boycott by Clark Johnson( Visual )

1 edition published in 2002 in Undetermined and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

When Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat in the "whites only" section of the bus, she sets in motion the Civil Rights movement, making Martin Luther King, Jr. a national leader

Sisterhood is powerful : liberty and justice for all? by Stewart Burns( )

1 edition published in 1990 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Come non eravamo by Mike B Anderson( Visual )

1 edition published in 2012 in Italian and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Shifting gears : the changing meaning of work in Massachusetts, 1920-1980 : North Adams( Book )

1 edition published in 1988 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Jim Crow on trial : voices from Montgomery : dramatization commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Montgomery bus boycott( Visual )

1 edition published in 1996 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

"The drama ... portrays real people and events. All the words were actually spoken or written by African-American women who started the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Decembr 1955."

To the mountaintop : Martin Luther King Jr.'s Mission and its Meaning for America and the world by Stewart Burns( Book )

1 edition published in 2018 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

The populist movement and the cooperative commonwealth : the politics of non-reformist reform by Stewart Burns( )

1 edition published in 1984 in English and held by 1 WorldCat member library worldwide

Boycott by Stewart Burns( Book )

in English and held by 0 WorldCat member libraries worldwide