The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

by King Jr., Martin Luther; Carson, Clayborne (Editor)

• ISBN13: 9780446676502
• ISBN10: 0446676500
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: Hachette Book Group USA
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Summary

Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpublished writings, interviews, recordings, and correspondence, King scholar Clayborne Carson has constructed a remarkable first-person account of Dr. King's extraordinary life.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	vii
Early Years	1	(12)
Morehouse College	13	(4)
Crozer Seminary	17	(13)
Boston University	30	(4)
Coretta	34	(6)
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church	40	(10)
Montgomery Movement Begins	50	(13)
The Violence of Desperate Men	63	(20)
Desegregation at Last	83	(17)
The Expanding Struggle	100	(11)
Birth of a New Nation	111	(6)
Brush with Death	117	(4)
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence	121	(14)
The Sit-In Movement	135	(7)
Atlanta Arrest and Presidential Politics	142	(9)
The Albany Movement	151	(19)
The Birmingham Campaign	170	(17)
Letter from Birmingham Jail	187	(18)
Freedom Now!	205	(13)
March on Washington	218	(11)
Death of Illusions	229	(10)
St. Augustine	239	(7)
The Mississippi Challenge	246	(9)
The Nobel Peace Prize	255	(10)
Malcolm X	265	(5)
Selma	270	(20)
Watts	290	(7)
Chicago Campaign	297	(17)
Black Power	314	(19)
Beyond Vietnam	333	(13)
The Poor People's Campaign	346	(10)
Unfulfilled Dreams	356	(11)
Editor's Acknowledgments	367	(4)
Source Notes	371	(20)
Index	391