University of Chicago Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration
Saturday, January 19, 2008 - Friday, January 25, 2008

Resources

The following resources can be found in the University of Chicago library system. (http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/)

Books

  • Abernathy, Donzaleigh. Partners to History: Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Crown Publishers, c2003.
  • Ansbro, John J. Martin Luther King, Jr.: the Making of a Mind. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1982.
  • Ansbro, John J. Martin Luther King, Jr: Nonviolent Strategies and Tactics for Social Change. Lanham: Madison Books, 2000.
  • Baldwin, Lewis V. There is a balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, c1991.
  • Baldwin, Lewis V. To make the wounded whole: The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, c1992.
  • Bates, Daisy. The Long Shadow of Little Rock. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas, 1987.
  • Bennett, Lerone Jr. Before the Mayflower: A History of Black America. New York: Viking Penguin, 1984.
  • Bennett, Lerone, Jr. What Manner of Man. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., Book Division, 1964.
  • Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon & Schuster Publishers, 1988.
  • Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.
  • Branch, Taylor. At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68. New York: Simon & Schuster, c2006.
  • Bruns. Roger. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006.
  • Burns, Stewart. To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955-1968. New York: Harper San Francisco, c2004.
  • Carson, Clayborne, ed. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: IPM/Warner Books, 1998.
  • Carson, Clayborne, senior ed. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
  • Carson, Clayborne. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960's. Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1981.
  • Carson, Clayborne. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume II: Rediscovering Precious Values, September 1951-November 1955. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
  • Carson, Clayborne. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955 - December 1956. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997.
  • Carson, Clayborne. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
  • Clark, Septima. Ready From Within: Septima Clark and the Civil Rights Movement. California: Wild Tree Press, 1986.
  • Deats, Richard. Martin Luther King, Jr., Spirit-Led Prophet: A Biography. Hyde Park, NY: New City Press, c2003.
  • Dyson, Michael Eric. I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: The Free Press, 2000.
  • Fager, Charles E. Selma. 1965: The March that Changed the South. Boston: Beacon Press, 1985.
  • Fairclough, Adam. To Redeem the Soul of America: The SCLC and Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens: University of Georgia, 1987.
  • Farmer, James. Lay Bare the Heart. New York: Arbor House, 1985.
  • Frady, Marshall. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Penguin Group, 2002.
  • Garrow, David J. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1986.
  • Garrow, David J. Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Voting rights act of 1965. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
  • Garrow, David J. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr: From "Solo" to Memphis. New York: Norton, 1981.
  • Hampton, Henry, and Steve Fayer. Voices of Freedom
  • Hanigan, James P. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Foundations of Nonviolence. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.
  • Hansen, Drew W. The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired the nation. New York: Ecco, c2003.
  • Harding, Vincent G. There is a River. New York: Harvest Books, 1993.
  • Ivory, Luther D. Toward a Theology of Radical Involvement: The Theological Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. Nashville: Abingdon Press, c1997.
  • King, Coretta Scott. My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc., 1969.
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. A Testament of Hope. San Francisco: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986.
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1963.
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1958.
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Berkeley: University of California Press, c1992.
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. The Trumpet of Conscience. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1968. (Foreword by Coretta Scott King. )
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1967.
  • King, Martin Luther, Jr. Why We Can't Wait: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1963.
  • Kirk, John A. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Longman, 2005.
  • Kirk, John A., ed. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates. Basingstoke; New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2007.
  • Lassiter, Valentino. Martin Luther King in the African American Preaching Tradition. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2001.
  • Lee, Chana Kai. For Freedom's Sake: The Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, 1917-1977. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 1999.
  • Lee, H. J. We Will Get to the Promised Land: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Communal-Political Spirituality. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2006.
  • Lewis, David L. Martin Luther King: A Critical Biography. London: Allen Lane, 1970.
  • Ling, Peter J. Martin Luther King, Jr. London; New York: Routledge, 2002.
  • Morris, Aldon. The Origins of The Civil Rights Movement. New York: Free Press, 1984.
  • Oates, Stephen B. Let The Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
  • Pickering, George W., and Alan B. Anderson. Confronting the Color Line: Broken Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in Chicago. Athens: University of Georgia, 1986.
  • Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested. New York: Viking Penguin, 1977.
  • Ransby, Barbara. Ella Baker and the Black Radical Tradition. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.
  • Robinson, JoAnn. The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Women Who Started It: The Memoir of JoAnn Gibson Robinson. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. David J. Garrow, ed.
  • Schulke, Flip, ed. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Documentary, Montgomery to Memphis. New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 1976.
  • Washington, James Melvin, ed. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986.
  • Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. New York: Viking, 1987.
  • Witherspoon, Wm. Roger. Martin Luther King, Jr.: To the Mountaintop. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1985.
  • Woods, Barbara, Jacqueline Anne Rouse, and Vicki L. Crawford. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers, 1941-1965. New York: Carlson Publishing, 1990.

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