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26 Oct ing that is now coming to our family will in some little way serve to make Atlanta 1960 a better city, Georgia a better state, and America a better country. Just how I do not yet know, but I have faith to believe it will. If I am correct then our suffering is not.& vain. I understand that I can have visitors twice a month-the second and fourth Sunday. However, I understand that everybody-white and colored-can have vis- itors this coming Sunday. I hope you can find some way to come down. I know it will be a terrible inconvenience in your condition, but I want to see you and the children very badly. Also ask Wyatt to come. There are some very urgent things that I will need to talk with him about.5 Pleas bring the following books to me: Stride Toward Freedom, Paul Tillich’s Svstematic Theolom Vol 1 &2, George But- trick The Parables of lesus E. S.Jones Mahatma Gandhi, Horns and Halo, a Bible, a Dictionary and my reference dictionary called Increasing your Word Power? This book is an old book in a red cover and it may be in the den or upstairs in one of my [stdzeout illegible;] bags. Also bring the following sermons from my file: “What is Man” “The Three Dimensions” “The Death of Evil” “Why could not we cast him out?” “WhyJesus called A man A Fool” “The God Samaritan” “The Peril of the Sword” “Our God is Able” “Levels of Love” “Loving your enemies” “God of the Lost” ‘Vision of A world made New” “Keep moving From this Mountain” “A Reli- gion of Doing” “Looking Beyond you circumstances” The Impassable Gulf” “Love for Action” “Christ The Center of our Faith” Some of these are in the file; others are on the desk.5 Also bring a radio Give my best regards to all the family. Please ask them not to worry about me. I will adjust to whatever comes in terms of pain. Hope to see you Sunday. Eternally yours [signed] Martin ALS. MLKJP-GAMK:Vault Box 1 3. In a 26 October telegram Walker wrote to King: “I will be to see you tomorrow afternoon.” 4. King annotated his personal copies of E. StanleyJones’s Mahatma Gandhi: An Interpretation (New York: AbingdonCokesbury Press, 1948) and J. Wallace Hamilton’s Horn and Halos in Human Nature (Westwood, N.J.:Fleming H. Revell Company, 1954). 5. Several of these titles also appeared as chapters in King’s 1963 book of sermons Strength to Love (New York: Harper & Row). The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project From Michael Meeropol 26 October 1960 Swarthmore, Pa. This postcard of supportfiom the elder son ofJulius and Ethel Rosenberg-thefirst American civilians executed for conspiracy to commit espionage- am‘ved among a 532 batch of correspondenceji-omSwarthmore college students who wished to express 26 Oct “moral support to the jailed student demonstrators in Atlanta.”’ 1960 Dear Rev. King: I am a freshman at college, and I’d like to express my personal feelings and the feelings of my classmates about you and your work.* Our hearts go out to you and the brave Southern students. Anything that we can do, we’ll be more than happy to. We are with you all the way. Very sincerely, [signed] Michael Meeropol 1964 ALS. SCLCR-GAMK: BOX5. I. In 1951 the Rosenbergs were found guilty of conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union. Despite an international campaign for clemency, they were executed at New York’s Sing Sing Prison in 1953.Michael A. Meeropol (1943- ) was born Michael Rosenberg in New York City. In 1957he and his brother Robert were adopted by Abel Meeropol (also known as Lewis Allan), who wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the music to the classic anti-lynching song “Strange Fruit,’’ and his wife, Anne. The Meeropols were longtime Communist Party members. Michael Meeropol earned a B.A. (I 964) from Swarthinore College, a B.A. (I 966) and an M.A. ( 1970)from King’s College, Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. (1973) from the University of Wisconsin. In 1970 Meeropol became a pro- fessor of economics at Western New England College. 2. In an October 1960 meeting, the Swarthmore Student Council unanimously adopted a proposal “to appropriate money for the purchase of postcards to be distributed to and sent” to the jailed sit-in participants (Swarthmore College, Minutes, Student council meeting on 23 October 1960, 28 Octo- ber 1960). From Nnamdi Azikiwe 26 October 1960 Lagos, Nigeria Nnamdi Azikiwe, the nmly appointed governor-general of Nigeria, writes in the hope The Martinthat King Luther will attend hisKing, inauguration.’ Jr. King Papers traveled to LagosProject in November to I. Nnamdi Azikiwe (1904-1996),born in Zungeru, Nigeria, attended missionary schools in La- gos before receiving a B.A. (1930)and an M.A. (1932) from Lincoln University in Chester County, Pennsylvania. He also received an M.S. (1933)from the University of Pennsylvania. Azikiwe edited the Gold Coast’s Afnca MorningPost in the mid-1930s and was convicted of sedition by the colonial government for an article appearing therein; the conviction was later overturned on appeal. Returning to Nigeria in I 937, he founded the West Afncan Pilot and four other periodicals, which he used to ag- itate for independence from Britain. In 1944he helped found the National Council of Nigeria and 533 .