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  26. SELMA

  PRINCIPAL SOURCES:

  “Movement to Washington,” Address at SCLC’s Ministers Leadership Training Program, Miami, February 23, 1968 (MLKEC, INP).

  “Selma—The Shame and the Promise,” Industrial Unions Department Agenda 1 (March 1965): 18–21.

  “Civil Rights No. 1—The Right to Vote,” New York Times Magazine, March 14, 1965, p. 26. Copyright © 1965 by the New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.

  Transcript, Testimony in Williams v. Wallace.

  Meeting scheduled with Hubert Humphrey, press release, Washington, D.C., February 7, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “Behind the Selma March,” Saturday Review 48 (April 3, 1965): 16–17.

  “After the March—An Open Letter to the American People,” Atlanta, April 1, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Annual Address to Ninth Annual Convention of SCLC, Birmingham, Alabama, August 11, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  OTHER SOURCES:

  Address to rally prior to Selma March, Selma, Alabama, February 1, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “A Letter from Selma: Martin Luther King from a Selma, Alabama Jail,” New York Times, February 5, 1965. Copyright © 1965 by the New York Times Co. Reprinted by permission.

  Instructions from Selma Jail to movement associates, February 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “Let Justice Roll Down,” The Nation, March 15, 1965

  Statement on brutal beating of three white ministers, March 10, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Handwritten draft of statement regarding death of James Reeb, March 11, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Statement announcing judge’s permission to stage march to Selma, Montgomery, March 16, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Statement regarding the address made by Lyndon Baines Johnson on the situation in Selma, March 16, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Interview in Selma, Alabama, March 24, 1965 (MMFR, INP).

  Address at St. Jude’s, Montgomery, March 24, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Address at Selma to Montgomery March, March 25, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Address and Press Conference at St. John Baptist Church, Gary, Indiana, July 1, 1966.

  Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (New York: Harper and Row, 1967), pp. 1–2.

  Form letter to supporters, June, 1965 (WAR, INP).

  27. WATTS

  PRINCIPAL SOURCES:

  “A Cry of Hate or a Cry for Help?” Special to the New York Times Magazine draft (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Statement on arrival in Los Angeles, August 17, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “Feeling Alone in the Struggle,” New York Amsterdam News, August 28, 1965.

  OTHER SOURCES:

  “A Christian Movement in a Revolutionary Age,” Rochester, New York, September 28, 1965 (CSKC, INP).

  “Beyond the Los Angeles Riots, Next Stop: The North,” Saturday Review 48 (November 13, 1965): 33–35.

  “The Crisis in Civil Rights,” Chicago, July 1967 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  28. CHICAGO CAMPAIGN

  PRINCIPAL SOURCES:

  “Why Chicago Is the Target,” New York Amsterdam News, September 11, 1965.

  Where Do We Go from Here.

  “The Good Samaritan,” sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, August 28, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “One Year Later in Chicago,” handwritten draft, February 1967 (SCLCR, GAMK).

  Quoted in Federal Role in Urban Affairs Hearings, testimony before Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization, Committe on Government Operations, U.S. Senate, December 15, 1966.

  OTHER SOURCES:

  Statement to the press, Chicago, July 7, 1965 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  The Chicago Plan, press release, Atlanta, January 7, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Address to Freedom Rally at Soldiers Field, Chicago, July 10, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Statement on West Side Riots, Chicago, July 17, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “Why I Must March,” address, Chicago, August 18, 1966 (MLKEC, INP).

  Statement on nonviolence, Grenada, Mississippi, September 19, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “A Gift of Love,” McCalls 94 (December 1966): 146–147.

  Keynote address, National Conference for New Politics, Chicago, August 31, 1967 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Press conference, Liberty Baptist Church, Chicago, March 24, 1967 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “What Are Your New Year’s Resolutions?” sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, January 7, 1968 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Interview with Merv Griffin, on Merv Griffin Show, July 6, 1967 (MLKEC, INP).

  “Conversation with Martin Luther King,” in James M. Washington, ed., Testament of Hope (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1986; 1991 ed.), pp. 657–679.

  Quoted in Flip Schulke, King Remembered.

  29. BLACK POWER

  PRINCIPAL SOURCE:

  Where Do We Go from Here, chapter 2.

  OTHER SOURCES:

  Address during Meredith March, West Marks, Mississippi, June 12, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Address at mass meeting, Yazoo City, Mississippi, June 21, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “It Is Not Enough to Condemn Black Power,” signed advertisement in New York Times, July 26, 1966.

  Statement on Black Political Power, Grenada, Mississippi, June 16, 1966 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “Conversation with Martin Luther King.”

  30. BEYOND VIETNAM

  PRINCIPAL SOURCES:

  “Journey of Conscience,” draft of address, 1967 (CSKC, INP).

  “Beyond Vietnam,” address at Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1967 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Press conference in Los Angeles, April 12, 1967 (DJG, INP).

  “To Chart Our Course of the Future,” Address at SCLC staff retreat at Penn Center, Frogmore, South Carolina, May 22, 1967 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Address at SCLC’s Ministers Leadership Training Program.

  OTHER SOURCES:

  “My Dream—Peace: God’s Man’s Business,” New York Amsterdam News, January 1, 1966.

  Press conference, Los Angeles, California, April 12, 1967.

  “Why I Am Opposed to the War in Vietnam,” sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, April 30, 1967 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “To Serve the Present Age,” sermon at Victory Baptist Church, Los Angeles, June 25, 1967 (MLKEC, INP).

  Press conference on riots, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, July 24, 1967 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  Keynote address, National Conference for New Politics.

  The Trumpet of Conscience (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1967), p. 37.

  Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, November 5, 1967 (MLKEC, INP).

  “What Are Your New Year’s Resolutions?” sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, January 7, 1968 (MLKEC, INP).

  “A Testament of Hope,” Playboy 16 (January 1969): 175.

  31. THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN

  PRINCIPAL SOURCES:

  Statement on Washington Campaign, Atlanta, December 4, 1967 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “Showdown for Non-Violence,” Look 32 (April 16, 1968): 23–25.

  “Movement to Washington.”

  Address in Memphis, Tennessee, March 18, 1968 (MVC, TMM and MLKJP, JMK).

  OTHER SOURCES:

  Address at SCLC staff retreat at Penn Center, May 22, 1967.

  “What Are Your New Year’s Resolutions?”

  Address at mass meeting, Waycross, Georgia, March 22, 1968 (MLKJP, GAMK).

  “A Testament of Hope,” Playboy.

  32. UNFULFILLED DREAMS

  PRINCIPAL SOURCES:

  “Unfulfilled Dreams,” sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, March 3, 1968, in Knock at Midnight, pp. 191–200.

  “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”

  “The Drum Major Instinct,” sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, February 4, 1968, in Knock at Midnight, pp. 184–186.

  INDEX

  Abernathy, Juanita

  Abernathy, Rev. Ralph

  and Albany Movement

  and Birmingham campaign

  home bombed
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br />   Abraham (Hebrew patriarch)

  Acton, Lord

  AFL-CIO, National Council of

  Africa

  liberation struggle in

  Alabama

  Dallas County

  Pupil Placement Law

  segregation in

  Supreme Court

  See also Birmingham; Montgomery;

  Selma

  Alabama Christian Movement for Human

  Rights (ACHR)

  Alabama Council on Human Relations

  Albany (Ga.) Movement

  Alexander, T. M.

  America

  conscience of

  independence for

  indictment on

  racism in

  soul of

  two-party system in

  See also United States

  Amos (prophet)

  Anderson, Dr. William G.

  Aquinas, Saint Thomas

  Aristophanes

  Aristotle

  Arkansas

  Asia

  Atlanta Constitution

  Atlanta (Ga.) lunch counter sit-ins

  Atlanta World

  Attucks, Crispus

  Augustine, Saint

  Baker (safety director)

  Barnett, Ross

  Beckwith, Byron de la

  Beecher, Henry Ward

  Belafonte, Harry

  Bell, Dr. Roy C.

  Bellamy, Edward

  Bennett, Rev. L. Roy

  Bentham, Jeremy

  Bethune, Mary

  Bevel, Rev. James

  Bhave, Vinoba

  Bhoodanists

  Billingsley, Orzell

  Bill of Rights

  Billups, Rev. Charles

  Birmingham (Ala.)

  business community of

  campaign

  “Children’s Crusade” in

  “D” Day in

  desegregation in

  Federal troops in

  nonviolent power in

  segregation in

  violence in

  See also Letter from Birmingham Jail

  Birmingham News

  Black, Hugo

  Black Muslims

  Black Nationalism

  Black Power

  Bond, Horace Mann

  Bond, Julian

  Boston Globe

  Boston Tea Party

  Boutwell, Albert

  Bowles, Chester

  Boyle, Sarah Patton

  Braden, Ann

  Brightman, Dr. Edgar S.

  Britain (British Empire)

  Brown, Ted

  Bryant, Farris

  Bryant, William Cullen

  Buber, Martin

  Bunche, Ralph

  Bunyan, John

  Bus boycott, Montgomery

  Byrd, Senator

  California

  See also Watts riots

  Cambodia

  Capitalism

  decline of

  vs. Marxism

  Caribbean

  Carlyle, Thomas

  Carmichael, Stokely

  Carpenter, Bishop C. C. J.

  Carter, Eugene

  Carver, George Washington

  Caste system, in India

  Castro, Fidel

  Chalmers, Dr. Allen Knight

  Chaney, James

  Chicago

  agencies in

  campaign

  Coordinating Council of Community

  Organizations (CCCO)

  Freedom Movement

  landlords in

  open housing in

  poverty in

  riots in

  slums in

  teenage boys in

  “Children of Vietnam, The” (article)

  Christ. See Jesus Christ

  Christianity

  tragedy of

  Christianity and the Social Crisis

  (Rauschenbusch)

  Christians, early

  Civil rights and ideological division

  and legislative inertia

  progress in

  struggle over

  Civil Rights Act of 1957

  Civil Rights Act of 1960

  Civil Rights Act of 1964

  Civil War

  Clark, Sheriff Jim

  Clayton, Charles M.

  Clement, Rufus E.

  Coffin, William Sloan

  Collins, Addie Mae

  Collins, Leroy

  Communism

  totalitarianism of

  Communist Manifesto, The (Marx)

  Communists

  Confessions (St. Augustine)

  Congo

  Congress

  See also House of Representatives

  Connor, Eugene (Bull)

  Constitution (U.S.)

  Preamble to

  CORE

  Cotton, Dorothy

  Crenshaw, Jack

  Crusade for Citizenship

  Crusader Without Violence (Reddick)

  Cuba

  Curry, Mrs. Izola Ware

  Dabbs, James McBride

  Daley, Richard

  David, King

  Davis, Jefferson

  Davis, Sammy

  Deacons for Defense

  Declaration of Independence

  Delaney, Hubert

  Democracy, vs. segregation

  Democratic Party

  Denial, pattern of

  Desegregation

  struggle over

  DeWolf, Dr. L. Harold

  Dickenson, Ed

  Diggs, Charles

  Discrimination. See Segregation

  Dixiecrats

  Doar, John

  Dolan, Joseph F.

  Douglas, Helen Gahagan

  Drew, Dr. Charles

  Durden, A. N.

  Durick, Bishop Joseph A.

  Eastland, James O.

  Egypt

  Eisenhower, Dwight D.

  Eliot, T. S.

  Elkins, Henry

  Ellender, Senator

  Emancipation Proclamation

  Ends, and means

  Equality, and inequality

  Euripides

  Europe

  Evers, Medgar

  Evil

  vs. good

  and love

  Face the Nation (TV)

  Fanon, Frantz

  Faubus, Orval

  Fauntroy, Walter

  FBI

  Fifteenth Amendment

  First Amendment

  Florida

  See also St. Augustine struggle

  Fourteenth Amendment

  France

  Freedom

  and Black Power

  vs. slavery

  struggle for

  Freedom March, through Mississippi

  Freedom Riders

  Freedom songs

  French, Rev. E. N.

  Freud, Sigmund

  Gandhi, Mahatma

  Gandhians

  Garvey, Marcus

  Gay, Rev. Ben

  Gayle, Mayor

  Genealogy of Morals, The (Nietzsche)

  Georgia

  See also Albany Movement; Atlanta lunch

  counter sit-ins

  Germany

  Ghana

  God

  as cellmate

  faith in

  guidance of

  light of

  power of

  seeing

  Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

  Goldberg, Arthur

  Gold Coast

  Golden, Harry

  Goldwater, Barry

  Good, vs. evil

  Goodman, Andrew

  Gorden, Earl

  Grafman, Rabbi Hilton L.

  Gray, Fred

  Great Depression

  Great Society

  Greece (ancient)

  Green, Bishop Sherman L.

  Greensboro, N. C., sit-in

  Guatemala

  Hall, Peter

  Hamer, Fannie Lou

  H
ardin, Bishop Paul

  Harding, Vincent

  Harmon, Bishop Holan B.

  Hate, as burden

  “Hate That Hate Produced, The” (TV)

  Hayling, Dr. Robert

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm

  Henry, Aaron

  Hinduism

  Hitler, Adolf

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Hollowell, Donald L.

  House of Representatives

  Housing. See Open housing

  Humphrey, Hubert H.

  Hungary

  “I Have a Dream” speech (King)

  India

  caste system in

  nonviolent resistance in

  Inequality, and equality

  Injustice

  atoning for

  racial and economic

  as threat to justice

  Integration

  approaches to

  in Little Rock

  without power

  Interstate Commerce Commission

  Invitational periods, and volunteers

  Irish

  Italians

  “I’ve been to the mountaintop” speech

  (King)

  Jackson, Eddie

  Jackson, Jimmy Lee

  Jackson, Mahalia

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jemison, Rev. Theodore

  Jeremiah (martyr)

  Jesus Christ

  crucifixion of

  inspiration of

  love ethic of

  parables of

  Jews

  John Birch Society

  Johns, Dr. Vernon

  Johnson, Frank M.

  Johnson, Lyndon B.

  and civil rights

  on equality

  and Great Society

  on human rights

  leadership of

  opportunity of

  and Vietnam War

  and voting rights

  and war on poverty

  Johnson, Mordecai

  Jones, Clarence B. (Chuck)

  Judaism

  Justice

  and love

  threatened by injustice

  Kapital, Das (Marx)

  Katzenbach, Nicholas

  Kelsey, Dr. George

  Kennedy, John F.

  assassination of

  and civil rights

  epitaph of

  moral courage of

  vs. Nixon

  personality of

  as statesman

 

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