Reading List

WORKS BY DR. KING  (from Chicago Public Library Web site)

The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Edited by Clayborne Carson. Vols. 1-3. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992-. E185.97.K5A2

Strength to Love. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. BX6452.K5252

Stride Toward Freedom. New York: Harper & Row, 1958. E185.89.T8K5

A Testament of Hope. New York: Harper & Row, 1986. E185.97.K5A25

The Trumpet of Conscience. New York: Harper & Row, 1967. E185.97.K5

Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row, 1967. E185.615.K5

Why We Can't Wait. New York: Harper & Row, 1963. E185.61.K54.

The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Meridian, 1993. E185.97.K5A25

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Newmarket Press, 1983. E185.97.K5A25

WORKS ABOUT DR. KING (from Chicago Public Library Web site)

Albert, Peter, and Ronald Hoffman, eds. We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black freedom struggle. New York: Pantheon Books, 1990. E185.97.K5W4

Anderson, Alan B. Confronting the color line: the broken promise of the civil rights movement in Chicago. Athens, Ga.:University of Georgia Press, 1986. F548.9.N4A53

Ansbro, John T. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The making of a mind. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1982. E185.97.K5A79

Baldwin, Lewis V. There is a balm in Gilead: the cultural roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1991. E185.97.K5B35

Beifuss, Joan Turner. At the River I Stand: Memphis, the 1968 strike, and Martin Luther King, Jr. B&W Books, 1985. HD5325.S2572

Bennett, Lerone. What manner of man. Chicago: Johnson Publishing Co., 1964. E185.97.K5B4

Bishop, Jim. The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1971. E185.97.K5B5

Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King years, 1954-1963. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988. E185.61.B7914

Clayton, Edward T. Martin Luther King: the peaceful warrior. New York: Pocket Books, 1969. E185.97.K5C5

Cone, James H. Martin & Malcolm & America: a dream or a nightmare. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1991. E185.97.K5C66

Davis, Lenwood G. I have a dream: the life and times of Martin Luther King, Jr. Westport, Conn.: Negro Universities Press, 1969. E185.97.K5D34

Dombrowski, Paul M. Existential psychology in the rhetoric of Martin Luther King, Jr. Ann Arbor, Mich.: UMI, 1991. E185.97.K5D65

Downing, Frederick L. To see the promised land: the faith pilgrimage of Martin Luther King, Jr. Macon, Ga.: Mercer University Press, 1986. E185.97.K5D68

Erskine, Noel L. King among the theologians. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 1994. BT82.7.E775.

Fairclough, Adam. To redeem the soul of America: the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Martin Luther King, Jr. Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1987. E185.61.F17

Faber, Doris. The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. NY: Watts, 1978. E185.97.K5F3

Frank, Gerold. An American Death: the true story of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the greatest manhunt of our time. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., 1972. E185.97.K5F7

Garrow, David J. Bearing the cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. NY: Morrow, 1986. E185.97.K5G36

Works which inspired Dr. King

Henry David Thoreau- Civil Disobedience (originally titled "Resistance to Civil Government")

Abraham Lincoln- The Gettysburg Address

The Declaration of Independence

The writings of Mohandas Gandhi