The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Hachette Book Group USA
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Summary

Using Stanford University's voluminous collection of archival material, including previously unpublished writings, interviews, recordings, and correspondence, King scholar Clayborne Carson has constructed a remarkable first-person account of Dr. King's extraordinary life.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface vii
Early Years
1(12)
Morehouse College
13(4)
Crozer Seminary
17(13)
Boston University
30(4)
Coretta
34(6)
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
40(10)
Montgomery Movement Begins
50(13)
The Violence of Desperate Men
63(20)
Desegregation at Last
83(17)
The Expanding Struggle
100(11)
Birth of a New Nation
111(6)
Brush with Death
117(4)
Pilgrimage to Nonviolence
121(14)
The Sit-In Movement
135(7)
Atlanta Arrest and Presidential Politics
142(9)
The Albany Movement
151(19)
The Birmingham Campaign
170(17)
Letter from Birmingham Jail
187(18)
Freedom Now!
205(13)
March on Washington
218(11)
Death of Illusions
229(10)
St. Augustine
239(7)
The Mississippi Challenge
246(9)
The Nobel Peace Prize
255(10)
Malcolm X
265(5)
Selma
270(20)
Watts
290(7)
Chicago Campaign
297(17)
Black Power
314(19)
Beyond Vietnam
333(13)
The Poor People's Campaign
346(10)
Unfulfilled Dreams
356(11)
Editor's Acknowledgments 367(4)
Source Notes 371(20)
Index 391

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