WORKS BY OR INCLUDING THE WRITING OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.:
Carson, Clayborne, ed. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Warner Books. 1998.
Carson, Clayborne, et al., eds. The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Volumes I–V. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992–2005.
King, Martin Luther (Jr.). Why We Can’t Wait. New York: Harper & Row, 1964.
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS:
Branch, Taylor. At Canaan’s Edge. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2006.
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1988.
Burns, Stewart. To the Mountaintop. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004.
Colaiaco, James A. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Militant Nonviolence. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988.
Davis, Townsend. Weary Feet, Rested Souls. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998.
Deats, Richard. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Spirit-Led Prophet. New York: New City Press, 1999.
Frady, Marshall. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life. New York: Lipper/Penguin, 2002.
Garrow, David J. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1986.
Halberstam, David. The Children. New York: Fawcett/Random House, 1998.
Norrell, Robert J. The House I Live In. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Oates, Stephen B. Let the Trumpet Sound. New York: Harper & Row, 1982.
Thernstrom, Stephen and Abigail. America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible. New York: Simon & Schuster, Inc., 1997.
NOTES
On Introduction, “felt keenly”: Garrow, 588.
On Chapter 1, bus incident: Autobiography, 9–11.
On Chapter 1, “We cannot have”: Autobiography, 9. See also “The Negro and the Constitution,” Papers, vol I. online at: http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications/papers/vol1/440500-The_Negro_and_the_Constitution.htm
On Chapter 1, “Boy…show me your license”: Oates, 12.
On Chapter 1, “I don’t care how long”: Autobiography, 8.
On Chapter 1, “The finest Negro”: “The Negro and the Constitution, Papers, vol I.
On Chapter 2, “Here the first Confederate flag”: Autobiography, 42.
On Chapter 2, “Look, woman”: Garrow, 12.
On Chapter 2, “I believe you are Reverend King”: Autobiography, 97.
On Chapter 3, “Give us the ballot”: Autobiography, 108.
On Chapter 3, “Fill up the jails”: Papers, vol. V, 369.
On Chapter 3, “Fellas”: Branch, Parting the Waters, 296.
On Chapter 3, “The defendant will rise”: Branch, Parting the Waters, 308.
On Chapter 4, “Leadership must do this”: Branch, Parting the Waters, 455.
On Chapter 4, “If they don’t get here”: Arsenault, Raymond. Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006; 234.
On Chapter 5, “a monument to white supremacy”: Colaiaco, 45.
On Chapter 5, “the most segregated city”: Oates, 210.
On Chapter 5, “unwise and untimely”: Oates, 222.
On Chapter 5, “Law and order exist” and other quotations from “Letter from Birmingham Jail”: King Jr., Martin Luther, Why We Can’t Wait. New York: Signet Classics, 2001, 64–84.
On Chapter 6, “the revolution”: Garrow, 282.
On Chapter 6, “Five score”: Autobiography, 223–7
On Chapter 6, “Tell ’em about the dream”: Branch, Parting the Waters, 882.
On Chapter 7, “In view of your low grade”: Garrow, 373.
On Chapter 7, “This…is what is going to happen to me”: Oates, 270
On Chapter 7, “anytime, anyplace, anywhere”: Colaiaco, 105.
On Chapter 7, “Now, Dr. King”: Halberstam, 482.
On Chapter 8, “Name one area”: from a facsimile of a literacy test, online at “Civil Rights Movement Veterans” website, accessed April 15, 2008: http://www.crmvet.org/info/litques.htm
On Chapter 8, “When the King of Norway”: Halberstam, 498.
On Chapter 8, “I want Doctor King to know”: Burns, 269.
On Chapter 8, “At times history”: President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Special Message to the Congress: “The American Promise,” March 15, 1965. From website of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Memorial Library and Museum. Accessed June 1, 2008: http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/speeches.hom/650315.asp
On Chapter 8, “probably the strongest speech”: Deats, 98
On Chapter 9, “I believe in my heart”: Garrow, 483
On Chapter 9, “I’m sick and tired”: Garrow, 485
On Chapter 9, “I don’t know what”: Garrow, 488
On Chapter 10, “I am mandated”: Frady, 184.
On Chapter 10, “Nonviolence as a concept”: Colaiaco, 195.
On Chapter 10, “We’ve got some”: Autobiography, 365.
On Chapter 10, “a national disaster”: Oates, 493–494.