by Tavis Smiley
Dr. King Speaks at Opera House in Stockholm Sweden, March 31, 1966. Nordvision/Sverige. YouTube (accessed January 20, 2014).
The Merv Griffin Show. July 6, 1967. YouTube (accessed December 20, 2013).
MLK: A Call to Conscience, a T.S. Media Production for Tavis Smiley Reports. PBS, 2010.
Sing Your Song. Dir. Susanne Rostock, S2BN Belafonte Production, LLC. DVD, 2011.
STAND. Dir. Tavis Smiley, Sivat Productions. DVD, 2009.
The Tonight Show. February 8, 1968. YouTube (accessed January 19, 2013).
Thank you for buying this ebook, published by Hachette Digital.
To receive special offers, bonus content, and news about our latest ebooks and apps, sign up for our newsletters.
Sign Up
Or visit us at hachettebookgroup.com/newsletters
For more about this book and author, visit Bookish.com.
CONTENTS
Cover
Title Page
Welcome
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
PART I
FOUR SEASONS: SPRING, SUMMER, FALL, AND WINTER Chapter One: “Vocation of Agony”
Chapter Two: “Betraying the Cause”
Chapter Three: “The Language of the Unheard”
Chapter Four: “Anxiety and Sorrow in My Heart”
Chapter Five: The Bloodiest Month of All
Chapter Six: Where Do We Go from Here?
Chapter Seven: Cities Aflame
Chapter Eight: Respect
Chapter Nine: Chaos
Chapter Ten: Ominous Clouds
Chapter Eleven: “I, Martin Luther King, Take Thee, Non-Violence, to Be My Wedded Wife”
Chapter Twelve: Ironic Anniversary
PART II
THE FINAL SEASON: THE LAST THREE MONTHS Chapter Thirteen: Thirty-Nine
Chapter Fourteen: Confession
Chapter Fifteen: Drum Major
Chapter Sixteen: Humility, Levity, and Longevity
Chapter Seventeen: Frantic Melancholy
Chapter Eighteen: Restless Heart
Chapter Nineteen: Garment of Destiny
Chapter Twenty: Firemen
Chapter Twenty-One: Midnight Hour in Memphis
Chapter Twenty-Two: Freedom Explosion
Chapter Twenty-Three: The Mountaintop in Memphis
Chapter Twenty-Four: April 4, 1968
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Also by Tavis Smiley
Sources and Bibliographies
Newsletters
Copyright
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 by Tavis Smiley
Author photograph by The Smiley Group, Inc. / Kevin Foley
Cover design by Mario J. Pulice
Cover photograph by Yoichi Okamoto
Cover copyright © 2014 by Hachette Book Group, Inc.
All rights reserved. In accordance with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, the scanning, uploading, and electronic sharing of any part of this book without the permission of the publisher constitute unlawful piracy and theft of the author’s intellectual property. If you would like to use material from the book (other than for review purposes), prior written permission must be obtained by contacting the publisher at [email protected]. Thank you for your support of the author’s rights.
Little, Brown and Company
Hachette Book Group
237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017
littlebrown.com
twitter.com/littlebrown
facebook.com/littlebrownandcompany
First ebook edition: September 2014
Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The Little, Brown name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The Hachette Speakers Bureau provides a wide range of authors for speaking events. To find out more, go to hachettespeakersbureau.com or call (866) 376-6591.
The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.
“Tribute to a King” lyrics courtesy of William Bell / Booker T. Jones
ISBN 978-0-316-33275-0
E3
