The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. [Six Volumes]

Carswell, Donald, Editor

ISBN 10: 0520079507 / ISBN 13: 9780520079502

Published by University of California Press, Berkeley, 1992

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Clean, bright and tight set. Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929--June 1951 (pub. 1992); second printing; ISBN 0-520-07950-7; vg/fine; a couple of small smudges to bottom edge; dj protected in mylar. Volume II: Rediscovering Precious Values; July 1951--November 1955 (pub. 1994); first printing; ISBN 0-520-07951-5; fine/fine; dj protected in mylar. Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955--December 1956 (pub. 1997); first printing; ISBN 0-520-07952-3; vg/vg; dj edgewear at top corners; one-inch scratch on rear dj panel; dj protected in mylar. Volume IV: Symbol of the movement, January 1957--December 1959 (pub. 2000); ISBN 0-520-22231-8; fine/fine; still in publisher's shrink wrap. Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959--December 1960 (pub. 2005); first printing; ISBN 0-520-24239-4; fine/fine; dj protected in mylar. Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963 (pub.2007), ISBN 978-0-520-24874-8; fine/fine, stray black ink mark on bottom edge., dj protected in mylar. Bookseller Inventory # 004234

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Title: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. [Six ...

Publisher: University of California Press, Berkeley

Publication Date: 1992

Binding: Cloth

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Synopsis:

More than two decades since his death, Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ideas―his call for racial equality, his faith in the ultimate triumph of justice, and his insistence on the power of nonviolent struggle to bring about a major transformation of American society―are as vital and timely as ever. The wealth of his writings, both published and unpublished, that constitute his intellectual legacy are now preserved in this authoritative, chronologically arranged, multi-volume edition. Faithfully reproducing the texts of his letters, speeches, sermons, student papers, and articles, this edition has no equal.

Volume One contains many previously unpublished documents beginning with the letters King wrote to his mother and father during his childhood. We read firsthand his surprise and delight in his first encounter (during a trip to Connecticut) with the less segregated conditions in the North. Through his student essays and exams, we discover King's doubts about the religion of his father and we can trace his theological development. We learn of his longing for the emotional conversion experience that he witnessed others undergoing, and we follow his search to know God through study at theological seminaries. Throughout the first volume, we are treated to tantalizing hints of his mature rhetorical abilities, as in his 1945 letter to the Atlanta Constitution that spoke out against white racism.

Each volume in this series contains an introductory essay that traces the biographical details of Dr. King's life during the period covered. Ample annotations accompany the documents. Each volume also contains a chronology of key events in his life and a "Calendar of Documents" that lists all important, extant documents authored by King or by others, including those that are not trnascribed in the document itself.

The preparation of this edition is sponsored by the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta with Stanford University and Emory University.

About the Author:

Clayborne Carson is Director and Senior Editor of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. A history professor at Stanford University, he is the author of In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s (1981), and editor of Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. (1998) and Malcolm X: The FBI File (1991).