Important Dates in the Life Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929 Born in Atlanta, Georgia on January 15 to Alberta Williams King and Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. 1935-1944 Dr. King attended and finished his early education at David T. Howard Elementary School and Atlanta University Laboratory School. He attended Booker T. Washington High School and left before graduation due to his acceptance and early admission in Atlanta's Morehouse College program for advanced placement In the Fall of 1944. He was 15 years of age. 1942 James Farmer organized C.O.R.E. (The Congress of Racial Equality), Spring, 1942. 1943 The first lunch counter sit-ins took place in Chicago, Illinois at Jack Spratt's Coffee Shop, May 14, 1943. 1945 The Japanese surrendered on September 2, 1945, ending World War II. Ebony magazine published its first issue on November 1, 1945. 1946 The U.S. Supreme Court banned segregation in interstate bus travel on June 3, 1946. Race riots occurred in Athens, Alabama on Aug 10 and in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on September 29, 1946. The National Committee on Civil Rights was created by President Harry Truman to investigate racism in America, December 5, 1946. 1947 "Freedom Riders" made up of an interracial group tested the laws of interstate bus travel in the segregated South, April 9, 1947. Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball as a third baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers club, April 15, 1947. Dr. King decided to become a minister and delivered his first prepared sermon in his father's church, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, at age 18 in the Summer of 1947. President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights condemned racial injustices towards Blacks in America. A report was issued on October 29, 1947, entitled "To Secure These Rights." 1948 A. Philip Randolph pointed the way for nonviolent protest to segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces, March 31, 1948. Dr. King was ordained as a Baptist minister and received his B.A. degree in Sociology from Morehouse College in June at the age of 19. In September he entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. Inspired by the preachings of Dr. A.J. Muste and Dr. Mordecai Johnson on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. King was moved to study intensely Gandhi's writings and movement while still a student at Crozer Theological Seminary, September 1948 - June 1951. 1949 William L. Dawson, Democratic Congressman from Illinois, became the first Black to head a standing committee in Congress as Chairperson of the House Expenditures Committee, January 18, 1949. Judge William H. Hastie was named Judge of U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, October 15, 1949. 1950 Dr. Charles Drew, the father of the blood bank, died April 1, 1950. Dr. Carter G. Woodson, the father of black history, died April 3, 1950. Gwendolyn Brooks was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her poetry, May 1, 1950. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche received the Nobel Peace Prize for his mediations in the Palestine dispute. He became the first Black to receive a Nobel citation, September 22, 1950. 1951 Dr. King graduated from Crozer Theological Seminary with his B.D. degree at age 22 in June, 1951. Dr. Ralph J. Bunche was appointed Undersecretary of the United Nations, the highest ranking American in the U.N. Secretariat, December 25, 1951. 1953 Dr. King married Coretta Scott, June 18, 1953. The first bus boycott started in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in this year on June 19, 1953. Riots erupted in Chicago at Thrumbull Park Housing project site on August 4, 1953. 1954 On May 17, 1954, the U.S Supreme Court, in a landmark decision, ruled unanimously in Brown vs Board of Education that racial segregation in the public schools of America was unconstitutional. Mary Church Terrell, outstanding black civil rights activist, died on July 24, 1954. Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. became first black general in the U.S. Air Force, October 27, 1954. Dr. King became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Church in Montgomery, Alabama on October 31, 1954. 1955 Marion Anderson became the first black to sing at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, January 7, 1955. Roy Wilkins became the executive director of the NAACP on April 11, 1955, succeeding Walter White, who died on March 21, 1955. Mary McLeod Bethune, educator and civil rights leader, died on May 18, 1955. The U.S. Supreme Court ordered desegregation of the public schools "with all deliberate speed" on May 31, 1955. This order implemented the May 17, 1954 decision. Dr. King received his Ph.D in Systematic Theology from Boston University on June 5, 1955. Emmett Till, age 14, was lynched and brutally defaced in Money, Mississippi on August 28, 1955. Dr. King's first child was born - Yolanada Denise (born in Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1955). The Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation in buses and all waiting rooms involved in interstate travel, November 25, 1955. Mrs. Rosa Parks, a 42 year old seamstress, refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery bus and was arrested. Dr. King became involved in the incident. As a means of protest the Montgomery Improvement Association was organized, December 4, 1955. Dr. King was elected president. On December 5, 1955, the famous boycott was started. This was the catalytic event which started Dr. King on the road to become America's crusader and most famous civil rights leader. 1956 Dr. King's home was bombed January 30, 1956 - no one was hurt. On February 21, 1956, a suit was filed in U.S. District Court asking that Montgomery's segregation laws be declared unconstitutional. On June 4 the U.S. District Court ruled that racial segregation on the city bus line was unconstitutional. On November 13, the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed this ruling prohibiting segregation on buses by declaring Alabama's laws unconstitutional. Montgomery's victory came on December 21, 1956 when, for the first time, black passengers could legally take any seat on the city's buses. Public buses were finally desegregated. On Deceber 27, 1956, Tallahassee, Florida followed and desegregated its buses after a six month boycott. 1957 An unexploded bomb was discovered on Dr. King's front porch on January 27, 1957. On January 12, mostly concerned ministers, labor leaders, lawyers, and activists got together and formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in an effort to gain information and strategy for ending segregation in their cities and towns. The meeting was held in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Dr. King was elected president, February 14, 1957. The Congress of the United States passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 on September 9, 1957. This was the first civil rights legislation since 1875. President Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce court-ordered integration of Little Rock Arkansas' schools. Nine black students were escorted into the school by court order on September 24 and 25, 1957. Martin Luther King III was born on October 23, 1957. 1958 Dr. King published his book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (New York: Harper and Brothers, September 17, 1958). Dr. King was almost killed by a deranged black woman, who stabbed him as he was autographing his new book in a department store in Harlem, New York, September 20, 1958. 1959 Dr. King and Coretta went to India as a guest of Prime Minister Nehru in efforts to study and learn more about Gandhi's philosophy and techniques of nonviolence from February 2 through March 10, 1959. Dr. King published his book, The Measure of a Man (Philadelphia: Christian Education Press, 1959). 1960 The sit-in demonstrations gained strength, with Greensboro, North Carolina's Woolworth's lunch counter as their focal point, February 1, 1960. The city of San Antonio, Texas became the first major southern city to integrate its lunch counters due to the sit-in demonstrations on March 16, 1960. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formally organized, mainly as a college student protest group. Its founding date was April 15, 1960 at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law on May 6, 1960. Dr. King was arrested for breaking the state of Georgia's trespassing law while picketing. He was transferred to Reidsville State Prison but was released on $2000 bond on October 19, 1960. 1961 Dexter Scott, Dr. King's third child was born January 30, 1961. C.O.R.E. (Congress of Racial Equality) tested the newly established interstate desegregation laws. An integrated group of Freedom Riders left Washington, DC on Greyhound buses, and, upon arrival near Anniston, Alabama, the bus was burned, and the riders were beaten, May 4, 1961. Thurgood Marshall, chief counsel for the NAACP, was appointed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals by President John F. Kennedy on September 1, 1961. 1962 Riots broke out on the campus at the University of Mississippi, requiring 12,000 federal marshals to restore order when James Meredith enrolled at the Oxford Campus under court order on September 30, 1962. 1963 Dr. King's forth child, Bernice Albertine, was born March 28, 1963. Birmingham, Alabama police chief, Eugene "Bull" Connor, became a symbol of extreme racism when he broadcast to the entire world his methods of stopping the Black protest movement. He used dogs and fire hoses on peaceful marchers, among them young children and women, April 3, 1963. Sit-in demonstrations were held in Birmingham, Alabama to protest public accommodations in eating facilities. Dr. King was arrested during one of the demonstrations, April 12, 1963. In a moment of reflection, Dr. King, while in his Birmingham cell, wrote about his concerns and criticism on the pace of justice in civil rights for Black Americans. These thoughts were expressed in his moving "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," April 16, 1963. Governor George Wallace stood in the door of the University of Alabama, refusing the entrance of Black students, June 11, 1963. Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi on June 12, 1963. On August 28, 1963, after meeting with President John F. Kennedy, Dr. King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd estimated at 250,000. Dr. King published his book, The Strength to Love (Harper and Row Publishers, September 1, 1963). The Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama became the site of a vicious attack on Sunday, September 15, 1963. Four little girls were killed when a bomb exploded inside the church where the children were seated. Dr. King performed a eulogy for three of the girls on September 18. President Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. 1964 Time Magazine honored Dr. King as "Man of the Year" with a feature story and cover photo, January 3, 1964. Dr. King published his book, Why We Can't Wait (New American Library Publishers, June 4, 1964). A new plank in the civil rights movement started with Black and White students, called the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO). They initiated massive voter-registration drives in the Summer of 1964. Dr. King was present at the White House while President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Accommodation and Fair Employment sections to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on July 2, 1964. Three civil rights workers, James Chaney (black) and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (both white) were killed on a trip through Philadelphia, Mississippi, August 4, 1964. On December 10, 1964, Dr. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. 1965 Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City on February 21, 1965. The Edmund Pettus Bridge incident took place in Selma, Alabama. The marchers were billy-clubbed, tear-gassed, and whipped with cattle prods, March 7, 1965. The Selma to Montgomery March, which took in over 25,000 marchers, was held from March 21 to 25, 1965, with the protection of federal troops. A white civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo was killed driving some of the black marchers back to Selma on March 25, 1965. The 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, August 6, 1965. The Watts Riots erupted in California, August 11 and 12, 1965. The National Guard was called in to stop America's worst single racial disturbance. Thirty-five people died. 1966 Robert C. Weaver became the first Black to serve in the cabinet of our nation. He was sworn in as Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs, January 13, 1966. The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that any poll tax levied was unconstitutional, March 7, 1966. Dr. King came out against our government's policy in Vietnam May 16, 1966. James Meredith was shot on a 220 mile "March Against Fear" from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson Mississippi on June 6, 1966. SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael used the then-militant term, "Black Power," in public for the first time in Greenwood, Mississippi, June 27, 1966. The National Guard was called in when Summer Riots, between July 18-23, 1966, broke out in Omaha, Nebraska, Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland and Dayton, Ohio. Dr. King marched on the issue for open housing in Chicago and was stoned by an angry crowd on August 6, 1966. Edward Brooke, Republican of Massachusetts, was elected as a United States Senator, the first Black senator since Reconstruction, November 8, 1966. 1967 Dr. King published his book, Where Do We Go from Here? Chaos or Community (Harper and Row Publishers, January 1967). Summer riots took the lives of forty-three, including 324 injured in Detroit, Michigan. Twenty-three died and 725 were injured in the Newark, New Jersey riots. Dr. King, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young, Jr. came out in an appeal to stop the riots that took place from May 1 through October 1, 1967. Thurgood Marshall was confirmed by United States Senate to sit as an Associate Justice and first Black on the U.S. Supreme Court, June 23, 1967. 1968 The National Advisory Committee on Civil Disorders (known as the Kerner Commission) came out with a statement concerning racism and riots in America on March 2, 1968. Dr. King went to Memphis, Tennessee to lead a march in support of striking sanitation workers, April 3, 1968. Dr. King delivered his last speech, entitled "I've Been to the Mountain Top," at the Mason Temple, the national headquarters of the Church of God in Christ, in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 3, 1968. On April 4, 1968, Dr. King's life was ended by an assassin's s bullet while he was on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. On April 5, President Lyndon B. Johnson decreed that Sunday, April 7, 1968 be a day of national mourning in honor of Dr. King. His body was viewed by mourners on the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, April 7, 1968. His funeral was eulogized at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta on April 9, 1968. He was laid to rest at the South View Cemetery. More than 300,000 people marched through Atlanta with his mule-drawn coffin, April 9, 1968. In the midst of the sadness of 1968, President Johnson signed another piece of civil rights legislation banning racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing to Blacks and minorities, April 11, 1968. On June 5, 1968, Robert Kennedy, the brother of the late president, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated in Los Angeles while campaigning for the presidency of the United States. Dr. King's assassin was identified as James Earl Ray, who was arrested at a London airport on June 8, 1968. Ray was later sentenced to 99 years in prison for this crime on May 10, 1969. He died in prison of liver failure on April 23, 1998. Shirley Chisholm of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York became the first black woman elected to Congress, November 5, 1968.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., minister, civil rights leader, intellectual, social reformer, author, recipient of countless accolades and awards, winner of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, parent, and charismatic leader seeking peace in the volatile social transformation taking place in America during the 1950's and 1960's - was suddenly taken from this earth at the hands of an assassin's bullet on April 4, 1968. This solitary man, within a span of thirteen years, did something that changed the way America viewed and treated a portion of its citizens, who were historically faced with racist, restrictive laws as part of their daily living. Americans of African descent were forced into an unconditional status as second class human beings. Dr. King was the catalyst for the removal of this loathsome status. His vision and leadership was holistic and ground upon the principles of nonviolence. The power of his message and the appeal of his movement brought thousands of people of goodwill, both Black and White, to his camp. His life was in constant danger, as well as the lives of his family and those who worked in his movement. Martin Luther King grew up in Atlanta, Georgia; therefore he saw the afflictions caused by a society separated by race. He desperately wanted to see a change. His educational preparation was coincidental to the awesome task before him, but it served him well in his role as a spokesperson and articulator of the injustices forced upon African-Americans. In his leadership capacity, King, the Boston University PhD in Systematic Theology, was searching to answers to this dilemma. He could see the complacency, but he could also see the violent outcome of this situation. He consumed and consulted the views of the world's philosophers, theologians, social, and moralistic thinkers as he contemplated the outcome of this racial cauldron. That comfort came when he read and studied the teachings and works of Mohandas Gandhi of India. Dr. King saw Gandhi's passive resistance movement and the ways it lifted India from under the British system of domination - and he related those views to his in America. It is therefore befitting that this focus on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., as a nonviolent crusader for social justice and freedom, coincide with the 50th Anniversary of his spiritual mentor, Mohandas Gandhi. This celebration of nonviolence from May 25th - June 30th welcomes you, the viewer and reader of this exhibit, to seek your peace with goodwill and nonviolence in both your community and environment. Dr. Martin luther King's grave at The King Center

The Writings of Dr. King Books in the Library's collection are followed by the call number in italics Address delivered by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ph.D., on May 14, 1963 at St. Paul's Church, Cleveland Heights / Martin Luther King, Jr. Cleveland Heights : The Church, 1963. Address of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered to a joint Convention ofthe two houses of the General Court of Massachusetts, April 22, 1965 : including alsothe prayer offered by Reverend Michael E. Haynes of Boston / Martin Luther King, Jr. Boston : Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1965. After the march : an open letter to the American people / Martin Luther King, Jr. [s.l. : s.n.], 1965. America's greatest crisis / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Transport Workers Union of America, AFL- CIO, 1961. An appeal to the Honorable John F. Kennedy, President of the United States, for national rededication to the principles of the Emancipation Proclamation and for an executive order prohibiting segregation in the United States of America. Submitted May 17, 1962 / Martin Luther King, Jr. [s.l. : s.n.], 1962. The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Intellectual Properties Management in association with Warner Books, 1998. E185.97.K5 A52 1998 Beyond Vietnam : an address sponsored by the Clergy and Laymen Concernedabout Vietnam / Martin Luther King, Jr. Palo Alto, Calif. : Altoan Press, 1967. A call to conscience : the landmark speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : IPM (Intellectual Properties Management), in association with Warner Books, c2001. A challenge to the churches and synagogues / Martin Luther King, Jr. Atlanta : Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1963. The Christian way of life in human relations / Martin Luther King, Jr. [s.l. : s.n.], 1957. Civil disobedience; five essays by Martin Luther King, Jr. [and others] / compiled by Robert A. Goldwin. Gambier, OH : Public Affairs Conference Center, Kenyon College, 1968. The civil rights struggle in the United States today : an address delivered at the houseof the Association [of the Bar of the City of NewYork] on Wednesday, April 21, 1965 / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : The Association, 1965. A comparison of the conceptions of God in the thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman / Martin Luther King, Jr. Doctoral Dissertation, 1955. Conscience for change / Martin Luther King, Jr. [Toronto] : Canadian Broadcasting Company, 1967. Honoring Dr. Du Bois / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, NY : YCL, Prompt Printing Press, 1968. I have a dream : writings and speeches that changed the world / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; foreword by Coretta Scott King ; edited by James Melvin Washington. San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 1992. E185.97.K5 A25 1992 I've been to the mountain top / Martin Luther King, Jr. [Memphis, Tenn. : s.n.], 1968. King, Malcolm, Baldwin : three interviews / interviewed by Kenneth B. Clark, with a new introduction. Middletown, CT. : Wesleyan University Press, 1985. E185.61 .K533 1985 A knock at midnight : inspiration from the great sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Intellectual Properties Management in association with Warner Books, c1998. BV4241.5 .K56 1998 Letter from Birmingham Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; foreward by Frank Altschul. Stamford, CT : The Overbrook Press, 1968. E185.97.K5 A25 1968x A Martin Luther King treasury / Martin Luther King, Jr. Yonkers, NY : Educational Heritage, 1964. The measure of a man / Martin Luther King, Jr. Philadelphia : Christian Education Press, 1959. My Jewish brother / Martin Luther King, Jr. [United States : s.n., 1960, 1968?]. Nobel lecture by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., recipient of the 1964 NobelPeace Prize, Oslo, Norway, December 11, 1964 / Martin Luther King, Jr. [S.l.] : Nobel Foundation, 1964. The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Clayborne Carson, senior editor, ; Ralph E. Luker and Penny A. Russell, volume editors ; Louis R. Harlan, advisory editor. 3 volumes. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1992-. E185.97.K5 A2 1992 The social organization of nonviolence / Martin Luther King, Jr. Liberation (New York, N.Y.), vol. 4, no. 7 : p. 5-6, October 1959. Speeches about the war in Vietnam / Martin Luther King. New York : Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam, 1968. The speeches of Martin Luther King Martin Luther King, Jr. [Oak Forest, Ill.] : MPI Home Video, c1988. IMC Video E185.97.K5 A23 1988bx Strength to love / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Harper and Row, 1963. BX6452 .K5 Stride toward freedom; the Montgomery story / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Harper, 1958. E185.89.T8 K5 A testament of hope : the essential writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. / James Melvin Washington, editor. San Francisco : Harper and Row, 1986. E185.97.K5 A25 1986 The trumpet of conscience / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, Harper and Row, 1968. E185.97 .K5 1968 The Ware lecture, 1966 / Martin Luther King, Jr. Boston : Dept. of Adult Programs, Unitarian Universalist Association, 1966. What happens to them happens to me / Martin Luther King, Jr. In: Bridges and boundaries : African Americans and American Jews. New York, NY : George Braziller, 1992. E185.61 .B825 1992 Where do we go from here: chaos or community? / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Harper and Row, 1967. E185.615 .K5 Why we can't wait / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Harper and Row, 1964. E185.61 .K54 The wisdom of Martin Luther King in his own words / Martin Luther King, Jr. ; edited by Bill Adler. New York : Lancer Books, 1968. The words of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Newmarket Press, 1984.

For Further Reading This April 4, 2004 will mark the 36th anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at the hand of an assassin's bullet. King's remarkable life covered a short period of time, but the memory of his movement, the causes, and his dream for a better America still lives on today. This year, as in previous years gone by, writers and academic scholars do analytical interpretations of King as a moral leader, a freedom fighter, and as a less than perfect human being. They appear as new finds and are published as new books. 2004 is no different from previous years. Trying to dissect King, as a person faced with an awesome task in the hostile, racist society of the 1960s, is not an easily written idea for books. Nevertheless, many new books will attempt to define this charismatic man, leaving behind good and bad dialogue which will call for new thinking about Dr. King's monumental works that improved the living conditions for the masses of Black Americans. The fact these new books are written shows us the importance of his journey and life in America in the year of 2004. Books in the Library's collection are followed by the call number in italics Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site: National Parks Service The King Center Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project: Stanford University Birthplace of a leader: Martin Luther King Jr.: CNN United States Department of Justice investigation of recent allegations regarding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. America celebrates civil rights legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Jet, 105(6): 6-13, February 9, 2004. [The 2004 King holiday observance honoring the 75th birthday of Dr. King at the Ebenezer Baptist Church's 36th annual commemorative services. Other events around the country are highlighted, including recognition awards, parades, etc.] Between cross and crescent : Christian and Muslim perspectives on Malcolm and Martin / Lewis B. Baldwin. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, 2002. BP222 .B35 2002 The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. : the boundaries of law, politics, and religion / Lewis V. Baldwin with Rufus Burrow, Jr., Barbara A. Holmes, and Susan Holmes Winfield ; foreword by Clayborne Carson. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2002. E185.97.K5 L35 2002 America in the King years, volume one: parting the waters / Taylor Branch. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1988. E185.61 .B7915 1988x Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-65 / Taylor Branch. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1998. E185.61 .B7915 1998 Free at last : a history of the civil rights movement and those who died in the struggle / Sara Bullard ; introduction by Julian Bond. New York : Oxford University Press, 1994. To the Mountaintop : Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968 / Stewart Burns. San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, 2004. E185.97.K5B798 2004 Civil rights chronicle : the African-American struggle for freedom / Clayborne Carson, primary consultant ; Mark Bauerlein ... [et al.], writers ; foreword by Myrlie Evers-Williams. Lincolnwood, IL. : Legacy Publishing Company, 2003. A 'common solution,' Martin and Malcolm's gulf was closing, but the debate lives on / Clayborn Carson. Emerge, 9(4): 44-52, February 1998. A stone of hope : prophetic religion and the death of Jim Crow / David L. Chappell. Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, 2004. In the spirit of Martin : the living legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / created and developed by Gary Miles Chassman. London : Tinwood Books ; Butler and Thomas, 2002. The Negro protest: James Baldwin, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King talk with Kenneth B. Clark / Kenneth Bancroft Clark. Boston, Beacon Press [1963]. E185.61 .C62 Martin Luther King, Jr. : apostle of militant nonviolence / James A. Colaiaco. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1988. E185.97.K5 C65 1988 My soul is a witness : a chronology of the civil rights era, 1954-1965 / Bettye Collier-Thomas and V.P. Franklyn. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 1999. Martin & Malcolm & America : a dream or a nightmare / James H. Cone. Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books, 1991. E185.97.K5 C66 1991 The least of these : race, law, and religion in American culture / Anthony E. Cook. New York : Routledge, 1997. BR115.P7 C646 1997 Martin Luther King : man with a dream / Jon Davidoff. Middleton, CT : Weekly Reader Books, 1985. Powerful days : the civil rights photography of Charles Moore / Michael S. Durham, text ; introduction by Andrew Young. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 1991. E185.61.D94 1991 Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968 / Ebony Magazine. Chicago : Johnson Pubublishing Company, 1968. [An Ebony Magazing special edition covering those photographs and significant events in the life of Dr. King as taken from the files of the Johnson Publishing Company.] To redeem the soul of America : the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. / Adam Fairclough. Athens : University of Georgia Press, c1987. E185.61 .F17 1987 Free at last : a bibliography of Martin Luther King, Jr. / by William H. Fisher. Metuchen, NJ : Scarecrow Press, 1977. Ref. Z8464.44 .F57 Martin Luther King, Jr. / Marshall Frady. New York : Penguin Group, 2002. E185.97.K5 F695 2002b An American death; the true story of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the greatest manhunt of our time / Gerold Frank. Garden City, NY : Doubleday, 1972. E185.97.K5 F7 Liberating visions : human fulfillment and social justice in African-American thought / Robert Michael Franklin. Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 1990. E185 .F8265 1990 Martin Luther King, Jr. : the FBI file / Michael Friedly with David Gallen, editors. New York : Carroll & Graf, 1993. E185.97.K5 G35 1993 Bearing the cross : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference / David J. Garrow. New York : William Morrow, 1986. E185.97.K5 G36 1986 The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. : from "Solo" to Memphis / David J. Garrow. New York : W.W. Norton, 1981. E185.97.K5 G37 1981 Protest at Selma : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting rights act of 1965 / David J. Garrow. New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1978. JK1929.A2 G37 The dream : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the speech that inspired a nation. / Drew D. Hanson. New York : Harper Collins, 2003. [An anaylsis of what Dr. King said - and what it meant to America as a country based upon freedom - in this famous speech.] We shall live in peace : the teachings of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Deloris Harrison. (Juvenile). New York : Hawthorn Books, 1969. Will the real Paul Revere please stand up? and 14 other American history plays / Gail Skroback Hennessey. New York : Scholastic Professional Books, 2002. [short plays for children about famous Americans including Dr. King] IMC Reference E176 .H48 2002bx Martin Luther King, Jr. : civil rights leader (Black Americans of achievement series) / Robert Jakoubek ; with an introduction by Coretta Scott King. Danbury, CT : Grolier Incorporated, 1989. King : the photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Charles Johnson and Bob Adelman ; photo editor and historian, Robert Phelan ; editor, Mary Beth Brewer ; designed by Will Hopkins and Mary K. Baumann. New York : Viking Studio, 2000. E185.97.K5 J57 2000 OVSZ My life with Martin Luther King, Jr. / Coretta Scott King. New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1969. E185.97.K5 K5 The King nobody knows. Ebony, 59(3):102-110, January 2004. [photos showing the personal side of Dr. King] Code name "Zorro" : the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Mark Lane and Dick Gregory. Englewood Cliffs, NJ : Prentice-Hall, 1977. E185.97.K5 L3 King; a critical biography / David L. Lewis. New York : Praeger, 1970. E185.97.K5 L45 1970 The preacher King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America / Richard Lischer. New York : Oxford University Press, 1995. BV4208.U6 L57 1995 Martin Luther King, Jr. : a profile / C. Eric Lincoln, editor. New York : Hill and Wang, 1984. E185.97.K5 M32 1984 House divided; the life and legacy of Martin Luther King / Lionel Lokos. New Rochelle, N.Y., Arlington House [1968]. E185.97.K5 L6 King from Memphis to now : a retrospective on the man and his dream, 25 years after his death / Walter Lowe, Jr. Emerge, 4(6): 32-39, April 1993. Memories of the Southern civil rights movement / Danny Lyon ; with a foreword by Julian Bond. Chapel Hill : Published for the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, by the University of North Carolina Press, 1992. E185.615 L96 1992 OVSZ The last crusade : Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign / Gerald D. McKnight. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998. E185.97.K5 M38 1998 Messages to Martin Luther King : what students would say if the civil rights leader were alive. Newsday Special Publication : Black History Month, 51, February 2004 [abridged reprint of Newsday, G3, January 18, 2004]. Martin Luther King, Jr.; his life, martyrdom, and meaning for the world / William Robert Miller. New York : Weybright and Talley, 1968. E185.97.K5 M5 The dream lives ON : Martin Luther King Jr. / Sandra Millner. New York : Metro Books ; Fairfax Publishers, 1999. Let the trumpet sound : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Stephen B. Oates. New York : New American Library, 1985. E185.97.K5 O18 1985x Facets African-American video guide (section: Civil Rights Movement p. 151-156) / compiled by Patrick Ogle, Facets Multimedia, Inc. Chicago : Academy Chicago Publishers, 1994. Reference PN1995.9.N4O44 1994 Black Americans : the FBI files / Kenneth O'Reilly ; edited by David Gallen. New York : Carroll & Graf, 1994. E185.615 .O73 1994 Who killed Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. / Les Payne. Emerge, 8(9): 40, July/August 1997. When Harlem nearly killed King : the 1958 stabbing of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Hugh Pearson. New York : Seven Stories Press, c2002. E185.97.K5 P42 2002 Orders to kill : the truth behind the murder of Martin Luther King / William F. Pepper. New York : Carroll & Graf, 1995. E185.97.K5 P43 1995 Killing the dream : James Earl Ray and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. / Gerald Posner. New York : Random House, 1998. I have a dream : Martin Luther King, Jr. handbook of activities. / Race Desegregation Assistance Center. 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"I have the audacity to believe that people everywhere can have three meals a day for their tired bodies, education and culture for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down, men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and non-violent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land 'and the lion and the lamb shall lie down together and every man shall sit under his own vine and fig tree and none shall be afraid.' I still believe that we shall overcome." Martin Luther King, Jr.