by The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr (retail) (epub)
“Nonviolence: The Only Road to Freedom,” Ebony 21 (October 1966): pp. 27–30.
Notes on MIA Executive Board Meeting, by Donald T. Ferron, January 30, 1956; and notes on MIA Mass Meeting at First Baptist Church, by Willie Mae Lee, January 30, 1956, Papers III, pp. 109–112, 113–114.
Interview with Martin Agronsky.
Quoted in Joe Azbell, “Blast Rocks Residence of Bus Boycott Leader,” Montgomery Advertiser, Montgomery, January 31, 1956, Papers III, pp. 114–115.
Quoted in Wayne Phillips, “Negroes Pledge to Keep Boycott,” New York Times, February 24, 1956. Papers III, pp. 135–136.
9. DESEGREGATION AT LAST
PRINCIPAL SOURCE:
Stride Toward Freedom, chapters 8 and 9; “Family in Siege,” unpublished draft; and “The Violence of Desperate Men,” unpublished draft (MLKP-MBU).
OTHER SOURCES:
Statement on ending the bus boycott, Montgomery, December 20, 1956, Papers III, pp. 485–487.
“Montgomery Sparked a Revolution,” Southern Courier, December 11–12, 1965.
Reactions to Conviction, Papers III, pp. 198–199.
“A Knock at Midnight,” in Strength to Love, chapter 6.
“The Montgomery Story.”
Letter to Lillian Eugenia Smith, May 24, 1956, Papers III, pp. 273–274.
Letter to Sylvester S. Robinson, October 3, 1956, Papers III, pp. 391–393.
Interview with Joe Azbell, Montgomery, March 23, 1956, Papers III, pp. 202–203.
“Desegregation and the Future,” address at annual luncheon of National Committee for Rural Schools, New York, December 15, 1956, Papers III, pp. 472–473.
Quoted in L. D. Reddick, Crusader Without Violence.
10. THE EXPANDING STRUGGLE
PRINCIPAL SOURCE:
Stride Toward Freedom, chapters 9–11.
OTHER SOURCES:
“Conquering Self-Centeredness,” sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, August 11, 1957 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“The Future of Integration,” address to the United Packinghouse Workers of America, AFL-CIO, Chicago, October 2, 1957 (UPWP, WHi).
“Facing the Challenge of a New Age,” December 3, 1956.
“Facing the Challenge of a New Age,” January 1, 1957.
“Give Us the Ballot,” address at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom, Washington, D.C., May 17, 1957 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“South-Wide Conference to Draft Final Plans for a Voting Rights Campaign,” press release, Montgomery, October 30, 1957 (UPWP, WHi).
Letter to O. Clay Maxwell, November 20, 1958 (MLKP, MBU).
Letter to Frank J. Gregory, May 7, 1957 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower, November 5, 1957 (NAACPP, DLC).
Letter to Fannie E. Scott, January 28, 1957 (MLKP, MBU).
Telegram to Coretta Scott King, New Orleans, February 14, 1957 (CSKC, INP).
Interview with Mike Wallace, “Does Desegregation Equal Integration?” New York Post, July 11, 1958.
Interview with Mike Wallace, “Self-Portrait of a Symbol: Martin Luther King,” New York Post, February 15, 1961.
Interview with Martin Agronsky.
“The Consequences of Fame,” New York Post, April 14, 1957.
Quoted in Poston, “Where Does He Go from Here?” New York Post, April 14, 1957.
11. BIRTH OF A NEW NATION
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
“The Birth of a New Nation,” sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, April 7, 1957 (MLKEC, INP).
Interview with Etta Moten Barnett, Accra, Ghana, March 6, 1957 (EMBC, INP).
OTHER SOURCES:
“Concerning Southern Civil Rights,” address at Mississippi Freedom Party rally, Jackson, Mississippi, July 25, 1964 (MMFR, INP).
Why We Can’t Wait (New York: New American Library, 1964), p. 21.
Annual Report, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, November 1, 1956–October 31, 1957 (DABCC, INP).
12. BRUSH WITH DEATH
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
Why We Can’t Wait, p. 17
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” address at the Bishop Charles J. Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 1968 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“Advice for Living,” Ebony 14 (December, 1958): 159.
OTHER SOURCES:
Annual Report, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, November 1, 1957–November 30, 1958 (DABCC, INP).
Letter to the mass meeting of the Montgomery Improvement Association, October 6, 1958 (HG, GAMK).
Interview on assassination attempt by Izola Curry, New York, September 30, 1958 (MMFR, INP).
Statement issued from Harlem Hospital, New York, September 30, 1958 (MLKP, MBU).
Statement upon return to Montgomery, Montgomery, October 24, 1958 (MLKJP, GAMK).
13. PILGRIMAGE TO NONVIOLENCE
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
“My Trip to the Land of Gandhi,” Ebony 20 (July 1959): 84–86.
“Sermon on Mahatma Gandhi,” at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, March 22, 1959 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“A Walk Through the Holy Land,” at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, March 29, 1959 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“The Death of Evil upon the Seashore,” in Strength to Love, chapter 8.
OTHER SOURCES:
“Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” sermon at National Cathedral, Washington, D.C., March 31, 1968 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“The American Dream,” address at Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, June 6, 1961 (MLKP, MBU).
“The American Dream,” sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, July 4, 1965 (MLKEC, INP).
“Equality Now: The President Has the Power,” Nation 192 (February 4, 1961): 91–95.
Statement on leaving India, New Delhi, March 9, 1959 (MLKP, MBU).
Quoted in the Tour Diary of James Bristol, March 10, 1959 (AFSCR, AFSCA).
“Pilgrimage to Nonviolence.”
Letter to G. Ramachandran, May 19, 1959 (MLKP, MBU).
Why We Can’t Wait, p. 135.
14. THE SIT-IN MOVEMENT
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
“The Burning Truth in the South,” Progressive 24 (May 1960): 8–10.
Annual Address on the Fourth Anniversary of the Montgomery Improvement Association, December 3, 1959 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“Foreword,” in William Kunstler, ed., Deep in My Heart (New York: William Morrow, 1966), pp. 21–26.
OTHER SOURCES:
“The Time for Freedom Has Come,” New York Times Magazine, September 10, 1961. Copyright © 1961 by the New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
“A Creative Protest,” address in Durham, North Carolina, February 16, 1960 (DJG, INP).
Why We Can’t Wait, chapter 2.
Statement at Youth March for Integrated Schools, Washington, D.C., April 18, 1959 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Statement to press at beginning of the Youth Leadership Conference, Raleigh, North Carolina, April 15, 1960 (MLKP, MBU).
Farewell Message to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Congregation, November 29, 1959 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Letter to Allan Knight Chalmers, April 18, 1960 (MLKP, MBU).
Letter to James W. Shaeffer, December 4, 1959 (MLKP, MBU).
Form letter to supporters, June 1960 (MLKP, MBU).
Letter to William Herbert Gray, April 6, 1960 (MLKP, MBU).
Quoted in “King Accepts Atlanta Job; Leaving City,” Montgomery Advertiser, November 30, 1959.
15. ATLANTA ARREST AND PRESIDENTIAL POLITICS
PRINCIPAL SOURCE:
Interview with Berl I. Bernhard for John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Atlanta, March 9, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
OTHER SOURCES:
Why We Can’t Wait, p. 147.
Why We Chose Jail, Not Bail: Statement to judge after the arrests at Rich’s, Atlanta, October 19, 1960 (CSKC, INP).
“Out on Bond,” Atlanta Journal, October 28, 1960.
Letter to Irl G. Whitchurch, August 6, 1959 (MLKP, MBU).
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Letter to Mrs. Frank Skeller, January 30, 1961 (MLKP, MBU).
Quoted in Andrew Young, An Easy Burden (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), p. 175.
16. THE ALBANY MOVEMENT
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
Diary in Albany Jail, July 10–11, July 27–August 10, 1962 (CSKC, INP).
“Why It’s Albany,” New York Amsterdam News, August 18, 1962.
“Fumbling on the New Frontier,” Nation, 194 (March 3, 1962): 190–193.
“Albany, Georgia—Tensions of the South,” draft of article for New York Times Magazine, August 20, 1962 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Why We Can’t Wait, chapters 1 and 2.
Address to District 65-AFL-CIO at Laurels Country Club, Monticello, New York, September 8, 1962 (MLKJP, GAMK).
OTHER SOURCES:
Letter to Earl Mazo, September 2, 1958 (MLKP, MBU).
Form letter to supporters, December 19, 1961 (JWWP, DHU).
“America’s Great Crisis,” address to Transport Workers Union Convention, New York, October 5, 1961 (TWUC, NNU-T).
“Solid Wall of Segregation Cracks at Albany,” SCLC Newsletter, March, 1963 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Quoted in Vic Smith, “Peace Prevails,” Albany Herald, December 18, 1961.
“Turning Point of Civil Rights,” New York Amsterdam News, February 3, 1962.
“A Message from Jail,” New York Amsterdam News, July 14, 1962.
“The Case against Tokenism,” New York Times Magazine, August 5, 1962. Copyright © 1962 by the New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.
“Terrible Cost of the Ballot,” New York Amsterdam News, September 1, 1962 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Statement on release from jail, Albany, Georgia, July 13, 1962 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Address and responses to questions at National Press Club, Washington, D.C., July 19, 1962 (MLKP, MBU).
Statement on Violence in Albany, with W. G. Anderson, July 25, 1962 (CSKC, INP).
Telegram to John F. Kennedy, August 2, 1962 (JFKP, MWalK).
Telegram to John F. Kennedy, September 11, 1962 (JFKP, MWalK).
Interview with Alex Haley.
Quoted in Time, January 3, 1964, p. 15.
“Interview, Man of the Year,” Time 83 (January 3, 1964): 13–16, 25–27.
17. THE BIRMINGHAM CAMPAIGN
PRINCIPAL SOURCE:
Why We Can’t Wait, chapters 3 and 4; and draft of Why We Can’t Wait (MLKP, MBU).
OTHER SOURCES:
Statement on Injunction, April 11, 1963, in Alan F. Westin and Barry Mahoney, The Trial of Martin Luther King (New York: Crowell, 1974), p. 79.
“Most Abused Man in Nation,” New York Amsterdam News, March 31, 1962.
Address at Mass Meeting at St. Luke’s Baptist Church, Birmingham, May 5, 1963 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Address at Mass Meeting, Yazoo City, Mississippi, June 21, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Telegram to John F. Kennedy, April 16, 1963 (JFKP, MWalK).
18. LETTER FROM BIRMINGHAM JAIL
PRINCIPAL SOURCE:
Why We Can’t Wait, chapter 5.
OTHER SOURCES:
Address and press conference at St. John Baptist Church, Gary, Indiana, July 1, 1966 (AC, InU-N).
19. FREEDOM NOW!
PRINCIPAL SOURCE:
Why We Can’t Wait, chapter 6.
OTHER SOURCES:
Statement at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, May 3, 1963 (DCST, AB).
Statement at Mass Meeting at St. Luke’s Baptist Church.
Statement at Mass Meeting, Birmingham, May 10, 1963 (MLKEC, INP).
“What a Mother Should Tell Her Child,” sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, May 12, 1963 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Interview with Kenneth B. Clark, in King, Malcolm, Baldwin: Three Interviews by Kenneth B. Clark (Middletown, Connecticut, 1963), p. 27.
Interview with Alex Haley.
Press Conference USA, videotaped interview, Washington, D. C., July 5, 1963 (DJG, INP).
20. MARCH ON WASHINGTON
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
Why We Can’t Wait, chapter 7; and “A Summer of Discontent,” draft for Why We Can’t Wait, September 1963 (MLKP, MBU).
Address at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963 (SCLCT, INP).
OTHER SOURCES:
Interview with Donald H. Smith, Altanta, November 29, 1963 (DHSTR, WHi).
Affidavit, Martin Luther King, Jr., vs. Mister Maestro, Inc. and Twentieth Century Fox Record Corporation, U.S. District Court, S.D. of New York, December 16, 1963 (MLKEC, INP).
21. DEATH OF ILLUSIONS
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
Why We Can’t Wait, chapter 8.
“Epitaph and Challenge,” SCLC Newsletter, November–December 1963.
“Eulogy for the Martyred Children,” Birmingham, September 18, 1963 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Meeting with John F. Kennedy and civil rights leaders, audio recording, Washington, D.C., September 19, 1963 (JFKP, MWalK).
OTHER SOURCES:
Annual Address to Seventh Annual Convention of SCLC, Virginia Union, Richmond, September 27, 1963 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Interview with Alex Haley.
Address on Three of the Children Killed at Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, September 18, 1963 (MLKP, MBU).
Handwritten Notes on John F. Kennedy assassination, November 1963 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“What Killed JFK?” New York Amsterdam News, December 21, 1963.
Christmas letter to the Family of Denise McNair, December 1963 (MLKJP, GAMK).
22. ST. AUGUSTINE
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
Why We Can’t Wait, chapter 8.
“Let Justice Roll Down,” Nation 200 (March 15, 1965): 269–274. Copyright © 1965. Reprinted by permission.
“St. Augustine Florida, 400 Years of Bigotry and Hate,” SCLC Newsletter, June 1964.
Statement on St. Augustine, Atlanta, June 17, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Annual Address to Eighth Annual Convention of SCLC, Savannah, Georgia, October 1, 1964 (SAVFC, WHi).
Passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act, Atlanta, July 2, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
OTHER SOURCES:
“Hammer of Civil Rights,” Nation 198 (March 9, 1964): 230–234.
Statement on Goldwater and St. Augustine, ABC interview, St. Augustine, Florida, July 16, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“Quest for Peace and Justice,” Nobel Prize Lecture at University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, December 11, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
23. THE MISSISSIPPI CHALLENGE
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
Statement in support of Freedom Democratic Party, Jackson, Mississippi, July 22, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Annual Address to Eighth Annual Convention of SCLC.
Address to Southern Association of Political Scientists, November 13, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“Ready in Mississippi,” New York Amsterdam News, August 29, 1964.
“Pathos and Hope,” New York Amsterdam News, March 3, 1962.
“People to People,” New York Amsterdam News, September 1964.
OTHER SOURCES:
“Passage of 1964 Civil Rights Act,” July 2, 1964.
Statement before the Credentials Committee, Democratic National Committee, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 22, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
24. THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
“Mighty Army of Love,” New York Amsterdam News, November 7, 1964.
“What the Nobel Prize Means to Me,” New York Amsterdam News, November 28, 1964.
Acceptance Address at Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony, Oslo, Norway, December 10, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Statement Concerning Nobel Prize Money, Oslo, Norway, December 17, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“Dreams of Brighter Tomorrows,” Ebony 20 (March 1965): 43.
OTHER SOURCES:
“Quest for Peace and Justice.”
Address on South African Independence, London, England, December 7, 1964
(ACA-ARC, LNT).
Statement on the Nobel Peace Prize, Forneby, Norway, December 9, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Address upon Acceptance of the New York City Medallion, New York, December 17, 1964 (MLKJP, GAMK).
“The Nobel Prize,” Liberation (January 1965): 28–29.
“Struggle for Racial Justice,” address at Recognition Dinner, Atlanta, January 27, 1965 (NF, GEU).
“After the Nobel Ceremony, A Tender Moment Is Shared,” Ebony 20 (March 1965): 38.
25. MALCOLM X
PRINCIPAL SOURCES:
Interview with Alex Haley.
“The Nightmare of Violence,” New York Amsterdam News, February 25, 1965.
Press conference on the Death of Malcolm X, the Nation of Islam and Violence, Los Angeles, February 24, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).
OTHER SOURCES:
Telegram to Betty Shabazz, February 26, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Letter to Edward D. Ball, December 14, 1961 (MLKP, MBU).
Transcript, Testimony in Williams v. Wallace, March 11, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).
Interview with Robert Penn Warren, in Who Speaks for the Negro?, Robert Penn Warren, ed. (New York: Random House, 1965), pp. 203–221.