Becoming King (42 page)

Garrow, David J.
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
. New York: Random House, 1986.

Halberstam, David.
The Children.
New York: Random House, 1998.

Harlan, Louis R.
Booker T. Washington: The Wizard of Tuskegee.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.

Honey, Michael K.
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers
. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993.

Korstad, Robert Rodgers.
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Lassiter, Valentino.
Martin Luther King in the African American Teaching Tradition
. Cleveland: Pilgrim Press, 2001.

Lentz, Richard.
Symbols, the News Magazines, and Martin Luther King.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.

Lewis, David Levering.
King: A Critical Biography.
New York: Praeger, 1970.

Lincoln, C. Eric, ed.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile.
New York: Hill and Wang, 1970.

Lincoln, C. Eric, and Lawrence Mamiya.
The Black Church in the African-American Experience.
Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1990.

Lischer, Richard, ed.
The Company of Preachers: Wisdom on Preaching Augustine to the Present
. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans, 2002.

Lischer, Richard, ed.
The Preacher King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Word That Moved America.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Lofton, Fred C., ed.
Our Help in Ages Past: Sermons from Morehouse.
Elgin, Ill.: Progressive National Baptist Convention, 1987.

Marsh, Charles.
The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to Today
. New York: Basic Books, 2005.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project. “The Student Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Summary Statement on Research.”
Journal of American History
78, no. 1 (June 1991).

Mays, Benjamin E.
Born to Rebel: An Autobiography.
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987.

Mays, Benjamin E.
The Negro’s God as Reflected in his Literature
. Boston: Chapman and Grimes, 1938.

Miller, Keith D.
Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Its Sources
. New York: Free Press, 1992.

Minchin, Timothy J.
The Color of Work: The Struggle for Civil Rights in the Southern Paper Industry, 1945–1980
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001.

Mitchell, Henry H.
Black Preaching.
Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1970.

Mitchell, Henry H.
The Recovery of Preaching.
San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1977.

Mixon, Gregory.
The Atlanta Riot: Race, Class and Violence in a New South City
. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005.

“Montgomery Bus Boycott.”
Southern Exposure
9, no. 1 (Spring 1981).

Morris, Aldon.
Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change
. New York: Free Press, 1984.

Newton, Wesley.
Montgomery in the Good War: Portrait of a Southern City, 1939–1946
. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2000.

Norrell, Robert J.
Reaping the Whirlwind: The Civil Rights Movement in Tuskegee
. New York: Knopf, 1985.

Oates, Stephen B.
Let the Trumpet Sound: The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr
. New York: Harper and Row, 1982.

Payne, Charles M.
I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1995.

Ransby, Barbara.
Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision
. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003.

Roberson, Houston Bryan.
Fighting the Good Fight: The Story of Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church, 1865–1977
. New York: Routledge, 2005.

Rogers, William Warren, Jr.
Confederate Home Front: Montgomery during the Civil War.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999.

Rogers, William Warren, Robert David Ward, Leah Rawls Atkins, and Wayne Flynt.
Alabama: The History of a Deep South State.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994.

Smith, Kenneth L., and Ira G. Zepp.
Search for the Beloved Community: The Thinking of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Valley Forge, Pa.: Judson Press, 1974.

Theoharis, Jeanne, and Komozi Woodard, eds.
Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America.
New York: New York University Press, 2005.

Thornton, J. Mills.
Dividing Lines: Municipal Politics and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Montgomery, Birmingham, and Selma
. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2002.

Warren, Mervyn A.
King Came Preaching: The Pulpit-Power of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
. Downers Grove, Ill.: Inter-Varsity Press, 2001.

Weisbrot, Robert.
Freedom Bound: A History of America’s Civil Rights Movement
. New York: Norton, 1990.

Westhauser, Karl E., Elaine M. Smith, and Jennifer A. Fremlin, eds.
Creating Community: Life and Learning at Montgomery’s Black University.
Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2005.

Whitaker, Matthew C.
Race Work: The Rise of Civil Rights in the Urban West.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005.

Whitfield, Stephen J.
A Death in the Delta: The Story of Emmett Till.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988.

Williams, Donnie, with Wayne Greenhaw.
The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow
. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2006.

Williams, John A.
The King God Didn’t Save: Reflections on the Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr
. New York: Coward-McCann, 1970.

Williams, Johnny E.
African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas
. Oxford: University Press of Mississippi, 2003.

Williams, Juan, and Dwayne Ashley.
I’ll Find a Way or Make One: A Tribute to Historically Black Colleges and Universities
. New York: Amistad, 2004.

Wilmore, Gayraud.
Black Religion and Black Radicalism.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1972.

Yeakey, Lamont Henry. “The Montgomery Alabama Bus Boycott, 1955–56.” Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1979.

Young, Andrew.
An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America
. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

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Abernathy, Ralph David First Baptist Church and

leadership in Montgomery

Montgomery Improvement Association and

Southern Christian Leadership Conference and

AFL-CIO

Alabama Council on Human Relations

Alabama Southern Baptists

Alabama State College/University

Alabama Tribune

Allen, Erna Dungee

Anderson, Marian

Anderson, Trezzvant W.

Andrews, Olive

Anna M. Duncan Club

Antioch College, xvi

Atlanta, Georgia, xii

Atlanta University

Azbell, Joe

Bagley, J. H.

Baker, Ella

Baldwin, James

Beech, Gould

Bell, Horace G.

Bellamy, Edward

Bennett, L. Roy

Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham, Dave

Boston, Massachusetts

Boston University, xii

Brightman, Edgar

Brock, Jack D.

Brooks, Hilliard

Brooks, Joseph

Brooks, Phillips

Brooks, Sadie

Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

Browder, Aurelia

Browder v. Gayle

Brown, Warren

Brown v. Board of Education

Burks, Mary Fair,

Burks, Mary Fair
(cont.)

Burroughs, Nannie Helen

Busby, Steven

Carmichael, Stokely

Carr, Johnnie

Carroll, E. Tipton

Carter, Eugene W.

Citizens Club (Montgomery)

Citizens Coordinating Committee (Montgomery)

Citizens Overall Committee

Citizens Steering Committee

Civil War

Cleere, George

Cloverdale Christian Church (Montgomery)

Colvin, Claudette

communism.
See also
King, Martin Luther, Jr.: communism and

Congress on Racial Equality (CORE)

Crenshaw, Jack

Crozer Theological Seminary

Curry, Izola

Democratic Party

Dexter Avenue Baptist Church bus boycott and

history of

Vernon Johns and

King’s call to Dexter

King’s departure from Dexter

King’s sermons at

King’s tenure at

sit-in movement and

Dexter Avenue Methodist Church

Dexter Avenue Social and Political Action Committee

Dombrowski, James

Durr, Clifford

Durr, Virginia Montgomery and

New Deal and

Rosa Parks and

Eastland, James

Ebenezer Baptist Church

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Englehardt, Sam

Farm and City Enterprises

Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)

Fellowship of the Concerned (Montgomery)

Field, Marshall

Fields, Uriah J.

First Baptist Church (Montgomery)

Fisk University

Fleming v. South Carolina Electric and Gas Company

Folsom, Jim

Fosdick, Harry Emersonnn

Frazier, G. Stanley

Freedom Rides

French, Edgar

Gandhi, Mahatma

Gayle, William “Tacky”

Ghana

Glasco, R. J.

Glass, Thelma

Gomillion, Dean

Graetz, Robert S.

Gray, Fred

Great Depression

Greensboro, North Carolina

Hall, Grover

Hamer, Fannie Lou

Hayes, Roland

Highlander Folk School

Horton, Myles

Hubbard, Hillman H.

Hughes, Robert

India

Jackson, Emory O.

Jet
magazine

Jim Crow

Johns, Vernon

Jones, Donald

Jones, Moses

Jones, Walter B.

Judkins, Robert Chapman

Keighton, Robert

Kelsey, George

King, Alberta Williams

King, Coretta Scott

King, Martin Luther, Jr. African American bus drivers and

antiboycott arrest and trial of

Atlanta’s impact on

beloved community and

call to ministry

capitalism and

colonialism and

communism and

Crozer Theological Seminary and

King, Martin Luther, Jr.
(cont.)
Ebenezer Baptist Church and

faith in God

family impact on

Uriah Fields crisis and

Gandhi and

Ghana trip

Holy Land trip

hope and optimism of

India trip

leadership in Montgomery

love ethic

Benjamin Mays and

Montgomery’s impact on

Morehouse College and

NAACP and

national leadership

Reinhold Niebuhr and

nonviolence

oratory of

personalism and

plagiarism and

Walter Rauschenbusch and

social gospel and

stabbing of

symbol of the civil rights movement

threats and violence against

Emmett Till and

Paul Tillich and

Henry Nelson Wieman and

working-class African Americans and

See also
King books, essays, and student papers; King sermons; King speeches

King, Martin Luther, Sr.

King books, essays, and student papers “Advice for Living

“Autobiography of Religious Development

dissertation

“My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence”

“Preaching Ministry”

Stride Toward Freedom

King sermons “Conquering Self-Centeredness”

“The Death of Evil on the Seashore”

“The Dimensions of a Complete Life”

“How to Believe in a Good God in the Midst of Glaring Evil”

“It’s a Great Day to Be Alive”

“It’s Hard to Be a Christian”

“A Knock at Midnight”

“Lessons from History”

“Loving Your Enemies”

“The One-Sided Approach of the Good Samaritan”

“Our God is Able”

“A Tough Mind and a Tender Heart”

“When Peace Becomes Obnoxious”

King speeches “Acceptance Address at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church”

“Address to MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church”

front porch address

“Give Us the Ballot”

“I Have a Dream”

Ku Klux Klan

Lewis, Rufus

Ligon, Eugene

Lincoln, Abraham

Little Rock, Arkansas

Looking Backward: 2000–1887. See Bellamy, Edward

Madison, Arthur

March on Washington

Marshall, Thurgood

Marx, Karl

Matthews, Robert

Maxwell Air Force Base

Mays, Benjamin

McCall, Walter

McCracken, Robert J.

McDonald, Susie

McGlynn, Harold

Memphis, Tennessee

Men of Montgomery

Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church (Montgomery)

Montgomery, Alabama black resistance in