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SELECTED PRINT AND AUDIOVISUAL RESOURCES ON DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Print Resources Abernathy, Ralph. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down. New York: Harper & Row, 1989. [ARCHE] Albert, Peter J. and Ronald Hoffman. We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Freedom Struggle. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. [Stanford: About King and Freedom Struggle] Baldwin, Lewis V., Rufus Burrow, Jr., Barbara A. Holmes and Susan Holmes Winfield. Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics and Religion. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002. Bass, S. Jonathan. Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King, Jr., Eight White Religious Leaders and the “Letter from Birmingham Jail”. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Bennett, Lerone, Jr. What Manner of Man. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., Book Division, 1964. An in-depth biography of Dr. King by the senior editor of Ebony magazine, who was a college classmate of Dr. King’s. [King Center: Books about MLK] _____. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America. New York: Viking Penguin, 1984. This black history classic emphasizes the role of African-Americans in American history and culture. It is based on the trials and triumphs of black Americans. [King Center: Books about Civil Rights] Branch, Taylor. Parting The Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon & Schuster Publishers, 1988. A Pulitzer-Prize winning biography of Dr. King and the early years of the Civil Rights Movement. [King Center: Books about MLK] ______. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981. [ARCHE] Selected bibliography compiled: Fall 2007 1 Posted: January 2008 ______. At Canaan’s Edge : America in the King Years, 1965-1968. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006. [RWWL OPAC] Bull, Angela. Free At Last!: The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Dorling Kindersley, 2000. [Stanford: About King] Burns, Stewart. To The Mountaintop: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955-1968. New York: Harper Collins, 2004. Burrow, Rufus, Jr. God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Button, James. Blacks and Social Change: Impact of the Civil Rights Movement in Southern Communities. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. [ARCHE] Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960’s. Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1981. A history of SNCC’s evolving radicalism. [King Center: Books about Civil Rights] Carson, Clayborne, ed. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: IPM in Association with Warner Books, 1998. This history-making autobiography is Martin Luther King in his own words: the mild- mannered, inquisitive child and student who chafed under and eventually rebelled against segregation; the dedicated young minister who continually questioned the depths of his faith and the limits of his wisdom; the loving husband and father who sought to balance his family's needs with those of a growing, nationwide movement; and the reflective, world-famous leader who was fired by a vision of equality for people everywhere. [King Center: Books about MLK] Carson, Clayborne and Kris Shepard, eds. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: IPM/Warner Books, 2001. This companion volume to A Knock at Midnight features the landmark speeches of his career, including: "I Have a Dream"; his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize; his eulogy for the young victims of the Birmingham church bombing; and "I've Been to the Mountaintop," the last speech he gave before his death. Also featured in this text are introductions from world-renowned defenders of civil rights, who, reflecting on their own experiences, explain how they believe Dr. King's words can be applied in the twenty-first century. [Stanford: Publications] Carson, Clayborne and Peter Holloran, eds. A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., New York: IPM in Association with Warner Books, 1998. This is the definitive collection of eleven of Dr. King's most powerful sermons, from his earliest known audio recording to his last sermon, delivered days before his assassination. [King Center: Books about MLK] Selected bibliography compiled: Fall 2007 2 Posted: January 2008 Carson, Clayborne, David J. Garrow, Vincent Harding, and Darlene Clark Hine, eds. The "Eyes on the Prize" Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle, 1954-1990. New York: Penguin Books, 1991. [Stanford: About King and Freedom Struggle] Carson, Clayborne, David Garrow, Bill Kovach, Carol Polsgrove. Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963. Library of America, 2003. [ARCHE] Carson, Clayborne, Ralph Luker, and Penny Russell, eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929–June 1951. University of California Press, 1992. Covers King's childhood and family history, his days at Morehouse College, and culminates in his graduation from Crozer Theological Seminary. [Stanford: Publications] Carson, Clayborne, Ralph Luker, and Penny A. Russell, eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume II: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951–November 1955. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. Documents King's graduate studies at Boston University, including the full text of his doctoral dissertation. Also follows him through his courtship of and marriage to Coretta Scott, and the beginning of his pastorate at Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. [Stanford: Publications] Carson, Clayborne, Stewart Burns, Susan Carson, Pete Holloran, Dana Powell, eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955–December 1956. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. This volume covers the pivotal year of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, King's first foray into the leadership of a progressive movement for social change. [Stanford: Publications] Carson, Clayborne, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Kieran Taylor, eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957–December 1958. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. King emerges as a national and international leader following the success of the bus boycott. He founds the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to help spread the freedom struggle throughout the South, publishes his first book, and meets with President Eisenhower at the White House. [Stanford: Publications] Carson, Clayborne, Tenisha Armstrong, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Kieran Taylor, eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959– December 1960. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Volume Five illustrates the growing sophistication and effectiveness of King and the organizations he led, while providing an unparalleled look into the surprising emergence of the sit-in protests that sparked the social struggles of the 1960s. [Stanford: Publications] Selected bibliography compiled: Fall 2007 3 Posted: January 2008 Carson, Clayborne, Susan Carson, Adrienne Clay, Kieran Taylor, eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948–March 1963. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. The work, part of a planned multi-volume series, documents King’s preaching career and provides a unique look at never-before published early sermons, offering the public the first detailed presentation of documents in the $32 million cache recently acquired by Morehouse College. [Stanford: Project News] Chafe, William Henry. Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South. New York: New Press, 2001. [Stanford: About King and Freedom Struggle] Chappell, David. A Stone of Hope: Prophetic Religion and the Death of Jim Crow. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. Clark, Septima. Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. California: Wild Tree Press, 1986. A first person narrative book on Septima Clark of her participation in the movement. [King Center: Books about Civil Rights] ____. Echo In My Soul. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1962. Collier-Thomas, Bettye, and V.P. Franklin. Sisters in the Struggle: African American Women in the Civil Rights-Black Power Movement. New York: University Press, 2001. [Stanford: About King and Freedom Struggle] Davis, Townsend. Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998. [Stanford: About King and Freedom Struggle] Dittmer, John, W. Marvin Dulaney, Kathleen Underwood, George C. Wright. Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993. Downing, Frederick L. To See the Promised Land: The Faith Pilgrimmage of Martin Luther King, Jr. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1986. Dyson, Michael Eric. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Free Press, 2001. [ARCHE] Echols, James. “I Have a Dream”: Martin Luther King and the Future of Multicultural America. Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004. Erskine, Noel Leo. King Among the Theologians. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1995. [Stanford: About King] Eskew, Glenn T. But for Birmingham: The Local and National Movements in the Civil Rights Struggle. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.