Martin Luther Luther King, Jr., primary correspondence, 1955-1968 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:The collection consists of primary correspondence of Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1955-1968. Includes correspondence regarding his civil rights activities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Chicago (Ill.), and Mississippi; his involvement with the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.) and Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.); and his interest and involvement in a myriad of civil rights or pacifist organizations including the American Foundation on Nonviolence, American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa, Congress of Racial Equality, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Gandhi Society for Human Rights, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, National Council of Churches of Christ of the United States of America, the Southern Regional Council, and the White House Conference of 1966. Correspondents include Ralph Abernathy, Chauncy Eskridge, Aaron Henry, Clarence B. Jones, Kivie Kaplan, Theodore W. Kheel, Lyndon Johnson, William M. Kunster, Benjamin Mays, Richard M. Nixon, Jack O'Nell, Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Harry H. Wachtel