Contents

Welcome

Epigraph

Editor’s Preface

  1: Early Years

  2: Morehouse College

  3: Crozer Seminary

  4: Boston University

  5: Coretta

  6: Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

  7: Montgomery Movement Begins

  8: The Violence of Desperate Men

  9: Desegregation at Last

10: The Expanding Struggle

11: Birth of a New Nation

12: Brush with Death

13: Pilgrimage to Nonviolence

14: The Sit-In Movement

15: Atlanta Arrest and Presidential Politics

16: The Albany Movement

17: The Birmingham Campaign

18: Letter from Birmingham Jail

19: Freedom Now!

20: March on Washington

21: Death of Illusions

22: St. Augustine

23: The Mississippi Challenge

24: The Nobel Peace Prize

25: Malcolm X

26: Selma

27: Watts

28: Chicago Campaign

29: Black Power

30: Beyond Vietnam

31: The Poor People’s Campaign

32: Unfulfilled Dreams

Editor’s Acknowledgments

Unforgettable Praise for One of History’s Most Inspiring Untold Stories…

Source Notes