Martin Luther King

Early Years
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Clayborne Carson
Of course I was religious. I grew up in the church. My father is a preacher, my grandfather was a preacher, my great-grandfather was a preacher, my only brother is a preacher, my daddy's brother is a preacher. So I didn't have much choice.

Sleeping Beauties
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
by Dexter Scott King, Ralph Wiley
I felt inadequate to the task at hand, the scene before me, though my role seemed simple enough. Yoki had already shown me a picture of Prince Charming in a book of fairy tales, so I knew what he was supposed to look like. I'd seen myself in a mirror.

Sleeping Beauties, Part 5
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
by Dexter Scott King, Ralph Wiley
When the Hyatt opened, the brand-new Hyatt, with the blue dome, I was riding in the futuristic glass-walled elevator feeling like I was on a spaceship above Atlanta. Architect John Portman was a pioneer in developing new-age spaceship elevators

Rediscovering Lost Values
A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Clayborne Carson, Peter Holloran
I want you to think with me this morning from the subject: Rediscovering Lost Values. There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we have to look too far to see that.

First Listen: Lead by Being Led
Martin Luther King, Jr., on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times
by Donald T. Phillips
Do you have a dream? Find out how Martin Luther King, Jr., became the right leader for his time-and you can too! What does it take to be a leader? Why do people listen to one voice and ignore another? During the twentieth century, no American exhibited

Sleeping Beauties, Part 3
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
by Dexter Scott King, Ralph Wiley
My mother was traumatized during her pregnancy with me. All of us were born and raised in struggle. In January of 1956, Yoki was ten weeks old and they were living in Montgomery when a bomb was set off at their house.

Introduction
A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Clayborne Carson, Cris Shepard
Address to the First Montgomery Improvement Association (Mia) Mass Meeting. December 5, 1955, was one of the memorable and inspiring days of my life. History records this day as the beginning of the modern Civil Rights Movement that transformed America

Sleeping Beauties, Part 4
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
by Dexter Scott King, Ralph Wiley
My paternal grandfather also made his mark on me. He made his mark on all of us, on the whole city of Atlanta, long after he, as Mike King, at age sixteen, had hopped a freight from Stockbridge, Georgia, Henry County, south by southeast of Atlanta

Sleeping Beauties, Part 2
Growing Up King: An Intimate Memoir
by Dexter Scott King, Ralph Wiley
Like I said. We were rehearsing Yoki's play as the alley and our friends beckoned to us. In a nearby house, Lou Rawls's St. James Infirmary wafted up from a record player. Yoki also had a record player, on which spun large-mouthed 45s filled by yellow

Introduction
Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Marshall Frady
Almost a geological age ago, it seems now-that great moral saga of belief and violence that unfolded in the musky deeps of the South during the civil rights movement of the fifties and sixties.

Out of Egypt
Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Marshall Frady
King's father always presented a more imposing figure, in a way, than his eldest son ever would. A strapping, boomingly assertive man, commandingly erect and chesty, Martin Luther King, Sr. - later to be known as 'Daddy King' -was the bluffly autocratic

Out of Egypt, Part 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Marshall Frady
From those initial humiliations, King later recounted, 'I was determined to hate every white person.' It was a blank animus not really dispelled until his involvement with several integrated campus groups during his college years.

Introduction, Part 2
Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Marshall Frady
Over the years since then, ironically, King has passed into the cloudy shimmers of a pop beatification, commemorated with parades, memorial concerts, schools and streets and parks named for him, his birthday a national holiday, his image on postage stamps

Martin Luther King Day... Respecting Other People's Civil Rights!
by SAMHSA
The civil rights movement spanned more than a decade during the fifties and sixties, with President Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act in 1968. During this period, African American families saw how important the movement was in bringing positive change