Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr

by King, Martin Luther, Jr.

• ISBN13: 9780613999908
• ISBN10: 0613999908
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Turtleback Books

Summary

A professor of history and the noted author and editor of several books on the civil rights struggle, Dr. Clayborne Carson was selected by the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to edit and publish Dr. King's papers. Drawing upon an unprecedented archive of King's own words-including unpublished letters and diaries, as well as video footage and recordings-Dr. Carson creates an unforgettable self-portrait of Dr. King. In his own vivid, compassionate voice, here is Martin Luther King, Jr., as student, minister, husband, father, and world leader...as well as a rich, moving chronicle of a people and a nation in the face of powerful-and still resonating-change. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	p. vii
Early Years	p. 1
Morehouse College	p. 13
Crozer Seminary	p. 17
Boston University	p. 30
Coretta	p. 34
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church	p. 40
Montgomery Movement Begins	p. 50
The Violence of Desperate Men	p. 63
Desegregation at Last	p. 83
The Expanding Struggle	p. 100
Birth of a New Nation	p. 111
Brush with Death	p. 117
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence	p. 121
The Sit-In Movement	p. 135
Atlanta Arrest and Presidential Politics	p. 142
The Albany Movement	p. 151
The Birmingham Campaign	p. 170
Letter from Birmingham Jail	p. 187
Freedom Now!	p. 205
March on Washington	p. 218
Death of Illusions	p. 229
St. Augustine	p. 239
The Mississippi Challenge	p. 246
The Nobel Peace Prize	p. 255
Malcolm X	p. 265
Selma	p. 270
Watts	p. 290
Chicago Campaign	p. 297
Black Power	p. 314
Beyond Vietnam	p. 333
The Poor People's Campaign	p. 346
Unfulfilled Dreams	p. 356
Editor's Acknowledgments	p. 367
Source Notes	p. 371
Index	p. 391
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