Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume VII

Clayborne Carson is the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Professor of American History at Stanford University; Ronnie Lott Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute; and senior editor of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University. He is the author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s, Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., and coauthor of African American Lives: The Struggle for Freedom. Tenisha Armstrong is Associate Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project at Stanford University. She is the coauthor of The Martin Luther King, Jr., Encyclopedia and coeditor of Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959--December 1960 of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1985, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, the founder of the King Center in Atlanta, selected Stanford historian Clayborne Carson to edit the papers of her late husband. Since then, the King Papers Project has continued its efforts to complete a definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant sermons, speeches, correspondence, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. This long-term research and publication venture is being conducted in association with the King Estate, Stanford University, and the University of California Press.

• List of Papers List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology Editorial Principles and Practices List of Abbreviations Photographs The Papers Calendar of Documents Index

"An essential read for students of King." -- Hope Wabuke The Root "A definitive collection of interviews, speeches, and correspondence." THE BEST BOOKS ABOUT THE VOLATILE '60S -- Scott Porch Daily Beast "Carson has dedicated his life's work to recovering the authentic voice of King, and in this latest volume, he and Armstrong capture King's life through a multifaceted approach, including a detailed chronology of King's life, a calendar of documents accompanied with select photographs, and documents resuscitating the dogged determination of the civil rights leader. This volume creates a word picture of the era in which King lived, and the reproductions of handwritten notes also give a textured feel to the intellectual evolution of King. The annotation of people, places, and events is exhaustive and good roughage for students, scholars, and interested laypersons... provide[s] an educational moment for all persons interested in truth, justice, history, and knowledge." -- Ida E. Jones Washington Independent Review of Books