by Tavis Smiley
Greenwood, Tom. “Grosse Pointe Recalls King’s Emotional Visit in 1968.” Detroit News, March 14, 1988.
“Guilty Verdict in Mississippi.” New York Times, October 22, 1967.
Hamilton, Thomas J. “U.S. Policy Scored at Geneva Parley.” New York Times, May 30, 1967.
Hammer, Richard. “Protest: The Lady Who Came for Lunch.” New York Times, January 21, 1968.
Hechinger, Fred M. “Ford Fund Pledges Drive Against Racial Prejudice.” New York Times, February 18, 1968: 1.
Herbers, John. “Dr. King to Fight Bias in the North.” New York Times, August 6, 1965.
______. “Panel on Civil Disorders Calls for Drastic Action to Avoid 2-Society Nation.” New York Times, March 1, 1968.
Hill, Gladwin. “California Drive for Kennedy Is Opened by Unruh.” New York Times, March 17, 1968.
Hofmann, Paul. “Dr. King Is Backed for Peace Ticket.” New York Times, April 22, 1967.
______. “Foes of Asia War Divide on Mideast.” New York Times, June 7, 1967.
Huettemman, Jude. “The Night Martin Luther King Came to Grosse Pointe: Pride and Shame Three Weeks Before the End.” Detroit Free Press, May 5, 1974.
“Hundreds of Negroes View Body of Youth in Memphis.” New York Times, April 2, 1968.
Hunter, Marjorie. “5,000 Women Rally in Capital Against War.” New York Times, January 16, 1968.
“Joanie Goes to Jail Again.” Rolling Stone, November 23, 1967: 7.
Johnson, Thomas. “A Rights Activist.” New York Times, July 22, 1969.
______. “Cheering Harlem Throngs Walk with Powell in Rain.” New York Times, March 24, 1968.
Kazan, Alfred. “The Trouble He’s Seen.” New York Times Book Review, May 5, 1968.
“Kennedy’s Statement and Excerpts from News Conference.” New York Times, March 17, 1968.
“King Challenges Court Restraint, Vows to March.” Commercial Appeal, April 4, 1968.
“King Denies Trying to Merge Rights, Peace.” Los Angeles Times, April 13, 1967: 28.
“King Hits U.S. War Involvement.” Chicago Tribune, September 1, 1967: 3.
King, Jr., Dr. Martin Luther. “The American Negro: A Bill of Rights for the Disadvantaged.” New York Times, November 12, 1967.
Konvitz, Milton R. “Review: Where Do We Go from Here?” Saturday Review, July 8, 1967.
Kopkind, Andrew. “Soul Power.” New York Review of Books, August 24, 1967.
Leiby, Richard. “Declassified documents show NSA listened in on MLK, Muhammad Ali and Art Buchwald.” Washington Post, September 25, 2013.
Lewis, Carolyn. “Non-Violence Takes Courage: King’s Wife.” New York Post, March 29, 1968.
Lipsyte, Robert. “Clay Refuses Army Oath; Stripped of Boxing Crown.” New York Times, April 29, 1967: 1.
“Mini-Riot in Memphis…” New York Times, March 30, 1968.
Mohr, Charles. “Johnson, Dr. King Confer on Rights.” New York Times, March 6, 1965.
“N.A.A.C.P. Decries Stand of Dr. King on Vietnam.” New York Times, April 11, 1967: 1.
Nagourney, Adam. “Rescuing a Vietnam Casualty: Johnson’s Legacy.” New York Times, February 15, 2014.
“Negro Leader Looks Down Road Ahead.” Augusta Chronicle, June 25, 1967.
“Negro’s Lot Decried by Dr. King in Paris.” New York Times, March 29, 1966.
“New Pol Convention Is a Confused Scene.” Chicago Tribune, September 2, 1967: 3.
“Nonviolence Tactic Defended by King in Reply to Powell.” New York Times, March 25, 1968.
“Powell Ends Exile on Bimini to Speak on Coast.” New York Times, January 9, 1968.
“Powell in Plea for Black Power.” New York Times, January, 11, 1968.
“Rights Leaders Map Plan for Pressure on Congress.” New York Times, November 28, 1967.
“Rights Trial: The Klan in the Dock for Three Who Were Slain.” New York Times, October 15, 1967.
“Riot Report Gets Wide Praise; Brooke Sees Hope for Action.” New York Times, March 1, 1968.
Robinson, Douglas. “Dr. King Calls for Antiwar Rally in Capital Feb. 5–6.” New York Times, January 13, 1968.
Rowan, Carl. “Martin Luther King’s Tragic Decision.” Reader’s Digest, September 1967: 37.
Rugaber, Walter. “A Negro Is Killed in Memphis March.” New York Times, March 29, 1968.
______. “Dr. King Gives Up in Alabama to Start 5-Day Jail Sentence.” New York Times, October 31, 1967: 1.
______. “Dr. King to March in Memphis Again.” New York Times, March 30, 1968.
______. “Mississippi Jury Convicts 7 of 18 in Rights Killings.” New York Times, October 21, 1967: 1.
______. “Race Relations: A Hot Spring Begins in Memphis.” New York Times, March 31, 1968.
“Scene at Pentagon: Beards, Bayonets and Bonfires.” New York Times, October 22, 1967.
Schmidt, Dana Adams. “Protests Abroad to Back U.S. Rally.” New York Times, October 21, 1967.
Schudel, Matt. “An Eye on Our Times for 40 Years, Flip Schulke Has Shown Us the Drama of a Changing World, from the Hope and Anger of the Civil Rights Era to the Triumphant Crumbling of the Berlin Wall.” Sun Sentinel, July 7, 1991.
Sibley, John. “Bunche Disputes Dr. King on Peace.” New York Times, April 13, 1967: 1.
Seidenspinner, Clarence. “Man’s Struggle for Freedom.” Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1967.
Smith, Bob. “Dr. King Outdated.” Charlotte News, July 15, 1967.
Spiegel, Irving. “8 Church Leaders Ask Aid to Israel.” New York Times, May 28, 1967.
Steinberg, David. “Where Do We Go From Here?—Martin Luther King.” Book Review, Commonweal, November 17, 1967: 215–216.
Tirman, John. “Why Do We Ignore the Civilians Killed in American Wars?” Op. Ed., Washington Post, January 6, 2012.
“Transcript of President’s New Conference on Foreign and Domestic Matters.” New York Times, February 3, 1968.
Vecsey, Peter. “From Jim Crow to Obama, Newcombe Has Seen It All.” New York Post, January 20, 2009.
Waggoner, Walter H. “Shift in Position Is Hinted by King.” New York Times, March 28, 1968.
“ ‘War on White Man’ Urged at Jersey City Negro Rally.” New York Times, July 19, 1967.
“Washington Negro Leaders Said to Form ‘United Front.’ ” New York Times, January 11, 1968.
Weaver, Jr. Warren. “Parley on New Politics Yields to Militant Negroes’ Demands.” New York Times, September 3, 1967: 1.
______. “Politics and Race: Trouble on the ‘New Left.’ ” New York Times, September 3, 1967.
______. “Whites and Negroes Split at New Politics Parley.” New York Times, September 2, 1967.
Webel, Bruce. “James L. Bevel, 72, an Adviser to Dr. King, Is Dead.” New York Times, December 23, 2008: B10.
Zion, Sidney E. “Rights Leaders Support Criticism of Whites.” New York Times, March 2, 1968: 1.
TheKingCenter.org Digital Archive:
“A Call for a National Fast by Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam.” Sent to MLK on March 22, 1968.
Belafonte, Harry. “Letter to MLK.” February 23, 1968.
Egle, Jack. “Letter to MLK.” April 12, 1966.
King, Dr. Martin Luther. “Letter to Adam Clayton Powell.” January 2, 1968.
______. “Letter to Jack Egle.” April 26, 1966.
______. “Letter to Yves Montand.” April 5, 1966.
______. “The Mark of the Hawk.” Film Review Printed on Advertisement, 1957.
______. “The Meaning of Hope.” Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL, December 10, 1967.
______. “Message for Morris Abram.” September, 1967.
______. Speech in Eutaw, AL. March 20, 1968.
______. Speech in Jackson, MS. Pre–Washington Campaign, March 20, 1968.
______. “Speech to the People of Watts.” Los Angeles, CA, August 19, 1965.
______. “Statement Regarding an Attack on the First Amendment.” Atlanta, GA, October 30, 1
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______. “Statement Regarding His Five-Day Jail Sentence in Birmingham.” Atlanta, GA, October 30, 1967.
______. “Statement in Geneva, Switzerland, at Pacem in Terris II Convocation.” Geneva, Switzerland, May 29, 1967.
______. “Statement” Regarding Kerner Commission and Poor People’s Campaign. March 4, 1968.
______. “Statement” Regarding Carl Stokes’s Victory. Cleveland, Ohio. [Not Dated].
______. “Statement to the Press” Regarding Riots in Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA, August 20, 1965.
______. “Telegram to Cesar Chavez.” March 5, 1968.
______. “Telegram to Eartha Kitt.” January 23, 1968.
______. “Telegram - Invitation to SCLF Celebration.” October 24, 1967.
______. “Telegram to President Lyndon Johnson and Press Conference.” Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, GA, July 24, 1967.
______. “Telegram to Robert Sarnoff.” February 12, 1968.
______. “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam.” Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church. Atlanta, GA, April 30, 1967.
Levison, Stanley. “Letter to MLK.” July 12, 1967.
McDonald, Dora. “Letter to Eartha Kitt.” January 24, 1968.
Romney, Gov. George. “Telegram to the President.” July 24, 1967.
Sargent, Martin. “Letter to Andrew Young.” October 27, 1965.
“SCLC Memo on the Ministers Leadership Training Program.” February 15, 1968.
Tonight Show Appearance Press Release.” February 2, 1968.
Transcript. “Action Committee Meeting.” Paschal’s Motor Hotel, Atlanta, GA, February 11, 1968.
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