* Martin Luther King, Jr. - Writings, Speeches, and Papers (33 books)

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1929–1968) was an American Baptist minister and social activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.  He advanced civil rights through nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi, and his leadership was fundamental to that movement's success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the U.S.  

King participated in and led marches for blacks' right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other basic civil rights.  He led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), in which capacity he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama.  King helped organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

In 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.  In 1965, he helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches.  In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty, capitalism, and the Vietnam War.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, and was followed by riots in many U.S. cities.  He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2003. 

I draw your particular attention to the first four volumes of THE PAPERS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., a projected definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most historically significant speeches, sermons, correspondence, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. 

        “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”


The following books are in ePub format unless otherwise noted:

* A Call to Conscience [ed. Carson & Shepard] (Grand Central, 2001)
* A Gift of Love (Beacon, 2012 / Penguin, 2017)
* A Knock at Midnight [ed. Clayborne] (Warner, 2009)
* A Testament of Hope [ed. Washington] (HarperCollins, 1991) – PDF
* A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works (Beacon, 2013)
* All Labor Has Dignity [ed. Honey] (Beacon, 2011)
* Autobiography of MLK [ed. Carson] (Grand Central, 2001)
* The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. [ed. Carson] (Beacon, 2013)
* I Have a Dream: Writings & Speeches (HarperCollins, 1992) – PDF
* I Have a Dream [illus. Nelson] (Random House, 2012)
* In a Single Garment of Destiny [ed. Baldwin] (Beacon, 2012)
* Last Interview & Other Conversations (Melville House, 2017)
* Letter from Birmingham Jail (Penguin, 2018) – PDF
* Lost Massey Lectures [intr. Lucht] (Anansi, 2007)
* The Measure of a Man (Fortress, 1988) – PDF
* MLK on The Other America and Black Power (Beacon, 2016)
* MLK Companion [ed. C. S. King] (St Martins, 1993) – PDF
* The Radical King [ed. West] (Beacon, 2014)
* Strength to Love (Beacon, 2019)
* Stride Toward Freedom (Beacon, 2010) – ePUB + PDF
* Thou, Dear God: Prayers... (Beacon, 2012) – ePub + PDF
* The Trumpet of Conscience (Beacon, 2010)
* Ware Lecture, 1966 (UUA, 1966) – PDF
* Where Do We Go from Here? (Beacon, 2010) – ePUB + PDF
* Why We Can't Wait (Penguin, 2018)
* Why We Cant Wait [intro. D. Cotton] (Beacon, 2010)
* Words of Martin Luther King Jr. [ed. C.S. King] (Newmarket, 1987) – PDF

== THE PAPERS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. (1992–present) ==

* Vol. 1: Called to Serve, 1929-1951 (California, 1992) – PDF
* Vol. 2: Rediscovering Precious Values, 1951-1955 (California, 1994) – PDF
* Vol. 3: Birth of a New Age, 1955-1956 (California, 1996) – PDF
* Vol. 4: Symbol of the Movement, 1957-1958 (California, 2000) – PDF

== BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ==

* Annotated Bibliography of MLK [comp. Pyatt] (Greenwood, 1986) – PDF
* Free At Last: A Bibliography of MLK [comp. Fisher] (Scarecrow, 1977) – PDF


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