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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968), Nobel Peace Prize laureate and architect of the nonviolent civil rights movement, was among the twentieth century's most influential figures. One of the greatest orators in U.S. history, King is the author of several books, including Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story, The Trumpet of Conscience, Why We Can't Wait, and Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? His speeches, sermons, and writings are inspirational and timeless. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
Lewis V. Baldwin is professor of religious studies at Vanderbilt University and an ordained Baptist minister. An expert on black-church traditions, he is author of The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr.; There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr.; and Never to Leave Us Alone: The Prayer Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an author, journalist, and foreign correspondent for National Public Radio. In 1961, she was one of two black students to desegregate the University of Georgia.
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General Introduction Editor's Note PART I ALL OF GOD'S CHILDREN: TOWARD A GLOBAL VISION OF HUMAN LIBERATION Introduction Chapter 1 "The Vision of a World Made New" --Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Meeting of the Women's Convention Auxiliary National Baptist Convention St. Louis, Missouri 9 September 1954 "The World House" --Statement from Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) 167-173 Chapter 2 "Revolution and Redemption" --Address by Martin Luther King, Jr. European Baptist Assembly Amsterdam, Holland 16 August 1964 PART II CONFRONTING THE COLOR BAR: OVERCOMING RACISM AS A WORLD PROBLEM Introduction Chapter 3 "Declaration of Conscience" --Joint Statement on South African Apartheid by Martin Luther King, Jr., Bishop James A. Pike, and Eleanor Roosevelt Under the Auspices of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) New York, New York July, 1957 "Appeal for Action Against Apartheid" --Joint Statement on South African Apartheid by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Chief Albert John Luthuli Under the Auspices of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) July, 1962 "South African Independence" --Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. London, England 7 December 1964 "On the World Taking a Stand on Rhodesia" --Comment by Martin Luther King, Jr. Paris, France 25 October 1965 Let My People Go" --South Africa Benefit Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. Hunter College New York, New York 10 December 1965 "Invitation to South Africa" --Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to the South African Embassy 9 February 1966 "Racism and the World House" --Statement from Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) 173-176 Chapter 4 "Invitation to Ghana" --Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. Montgomery, Alabama March, 1957 "The Birth of a Nation" --Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery, Alabama 7 April 1957 "Introduction to Southwest Africa: The U.N.'s Stepchild" --Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. Published by the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) October 1959 Chapter 5 "The Future of the Emergent African Nations and the American Negro" --Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. Under the Auspices of the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa (ANLCA) Arden House Harriman, New York 24 November 1962 "My Talk with Ben Bella" --Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. New York Amsterdam News New York, New York 27 October 1962 "The Negro Looks at Africa" --Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. New York Amsterdam News New York, New York 8 December 1962 PART III BREAKING THE CHAINS OF COLONIALISM: THE RISE OF PEOPLES OF COLOR IN THE THIRD WORLD Introduction Chapter 6 "The People of Africa are Struggling for Independence" --Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery, Alabama 1959 "Palm Sunday Sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi" --Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church Montgomery, Alabama 22 March 1959 "My Trip to the Land of Gandhi" --Article by Martin Luther King, Jr. Ebony Magazine July, 1959 "The Question of Untouchability" --Comment by Martin Luther King, Jr. 11 March 1959 "Jawaharlal Nehru, a Leader in the Long Anti-Colonial Struggle" --Article by Martin Luther King, Jr. Nehru Centenary Volume Atlanta, Georgia 8 February 1965 "The Middle East Question" --Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) September, 1967 PART IV FOR THE LEAST OF THESE: THE GLOBAL WAR ON POVERTY Introduction Chapter 7 "The Octopus of Poverty" --Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. The Mennonite 5 January 1965 "Poverty and the World House" --Statement from Martin Luther King, Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) 176-181 "Nonviolence and Social Change" --Statement from Martin Luther King, Jr. The Trumpet of Conscience (1968) PART V TO STUDY WAR NO MORE: AN AFFIRMATION OF WORLD PEACE Introduction Chapter 8 "Address at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Dinner of the War Resister's League" --Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. New York, New York 2 February 1959 "The Greatest Hope for World Peace" --Statements by Martin Luther King, Jr. Prepared for Redbook Magazine 5 November 1964 "The Casualties of the War in Vietnam" --Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. The National Institute Beverly-Hilton Hotel Los Angeles, California 25 February 1967 "A Time to Break Silence" --Speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. Clergy and Laity Concerned About Vietnam (CALC) Riverside Church New York, New York 4 April 1967 PART VI TOWARD A POSITIVE PLURALISM: INTERFAITH DIALOGUE AND GLOBAL COMMUNITY Introduction Chapter 9 "Christianity and African Religions" --Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. Ebony Magazine September, 1958 "I Have Never Been a Religious Bigot" --Letter from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Mr. Bernard Resnikoff Fairlawn, New Jersey 17 September 1961 "All the Great Religions of the World" --Statements by Martin Luther King, Jr. Prepared for Redbook Magazine 5 November 1964 "My Jewish Brother" --Article by Martin Luther King, Jr. New York Amsterdam News New York, New York 26 February 1966 "Buddhists and Martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement" --Joint Statement by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Thich Nhat Hanh International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam Nyack, New York 1966