Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr

H-Afro-Am Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. (April 4, 1968)

Discussion published by Shawn Leigh Alexander on Sunday, April 3, 2016

Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 48 years ago today (April 4, 1968). Below is a beginning of a bibliography of books by or about Rev. King. Please add and discuss your own favorites.

Lerone Bennett, What Manner of Man; a Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr (Chicago,: Johnson Pub. Co., 1964). Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988). Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998). Taylor Branch, At Canann's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006). James H. Cone, Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1991). Michael Eric Dyson, I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr (New York: Free Press, 2000). Adam Fairclough, To Redeem the Soul of America: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987). David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (New York: Vintage Books, 1988). Drew D. Hansen, The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech That Inspired a Nation (New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2003). Vincent Harding, Martin Luther King, the Inconvenient Hero (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996). Trudier Harris, Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature (Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 2014). Michael K. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign (New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007). Thomas F. Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr. And the Struggle for Economic Justice (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006). Martin Luther King, Why We Can't Wait (New York: Harper & Row, 1964). Martin Luther King, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?(New York,: Harper & Row, 1967). Martin Luther King, A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr, ed. James Melvin Washington (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986). Martin Luther King, Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran, Ralph Luker, and Penny A. Russell, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992). Martin Luther King, and Clayborne Carson, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr (New York: Intellectual Properties Management in association with Warner Books, 1998). David Levering Lewis, King: A Biography (rpt. 1970, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1978). W. Jason Miller, Origins of the Dream: Hughes's Poetry and King's Rhetoric (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015). Greg Moses, Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence (New York: Guilford Press, 1997). Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (New York: New American Library, 1983). Harvard Sitkoff, King: Pilgrimage to the Moutaintop (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008). Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, Dreams and Nightmares: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America (Gainesville: University Press of Florida,

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The King Center

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (At the above link you will be able to find a list of all seven volumes of the King Papers.)