The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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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