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Book

A call to conscience : the landmark speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Call Number

  • 323.1196 K537.4 (OSH)

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Publication Information

Atlanta : Grand Central Publishing, c2001.

Physical Description

xi, 225 p. ; 20 cm.

Contents

  • Introduction (written and read by Andrew Young)
  • The address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) mass meeting (introduction written by Rosa Louise Parks and read by Mrs. Coretta Scott King)
  • The birth of a new nation (introduction written and read by Reverend Leon H. Sullivan)
  • Give us the ballot (introduction written and read by the Honorable Walter E. Fauntroy)
  • Address at the Freedom Hall rally in Cobo Hall (Introduction written by Aretha and Erma Franklin and read by Yolanda King)
  • I have a dream (introduction written and read by Dr. Dorothy I. Height.
  • (contents cont.) Eulogy for the young victims of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing (introduction written and read by the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth)
  • Acceptance address for the Nobel Peace Prize (introduction written by His Holiness the Dalai Lama and read by Representative John Lewis)
  • Beyond Vietnam (introduction written and read by Ambassador George McGovern)
  • Where do we go from here? (introduction written and read by Senator Edward M. Kennedy)
  • I've been to the mountaintop (introduction written and read by Andrew Young).

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