Black History Month: Books

This book includes twenty-three selections that show King's revolutionary vision, underscoring his identification with the poor, his unapologetic opposition to the Vietnam War, and his crusade against global imperialism.

1. Early years -- 2. Morehouse College -- 3. Crozer Seminary -- 4. Boston College -- 5. Coretta -- 6. Dexter Avenue Baptist Church -- 7. Montgomery movement begins -- 8. The voice of desperate men -- 9. Desegregation at last -- 10. The expanding struggle -- 11. Birth of a new nation -- 12. Brush with death -- 13. Pilgrimage of nonviolence -- 14. The sit-in movement etc.

"We as a people will get to the promised land": Martin and us -- "You don't need to go out saying Martin Luther King, Jr., is a saint"?: the American hero -- "I saw that dream turn into a nightmare": from color-blindness to Black compensation -- "Most Americans are unconscious racists": beyond liberalism -- "As I ponder the madness of Vietnam": the outlines of a militant pacifism -- "America must move toward a democratic socialism": a progressive social blueprint - etc.

A riveting account of the origins and legacy of "I Have a Dream" Forty years ago, Martin Luther King, Jr. electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King's prophetic utterances started the long overdue process of changing America's idea of itself. His words would enter the American lexicon, galvanizing the civil rights movement, becoming a touchstone for all that the country might someday achieve. The Dream is the first book about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s legendary "I Have a Dream" speech, etc.

I. Cultural democracy in the racial metropolis -- 1. Hollywood scuffle : the Second World War, Los Angeles, and the politics of wartime representation -- 2. The Negro as human being? : Desegregation and the black arts imperative -- 3. Writing Watts : the rise and fall of cultural liberalism, etc.