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Edward Kennedy, John Lewis, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and
Andrew Young, who recall Dr. King’s career and trace his
leadership in the civil rights movement. Includes portions
of his “I Have a Dream” speech.
6) “Citizen King”
Downloadable video and DVD
PBS Home Video
In exploring the last few years
of his life, this American
Experience production traces
King’s efforts to recast himself
by embracing causes beyond the
civil rights movement, by becom-
ing a champion of the poor and
an outspoken opponent of the
war in Vietnam. Tapping into a
rich archive of photographs and
film footage and using diaries,
letters, and eyewitness accounts
of fellow activists, friends, jour-
nalists, political leaders and law enforcement officials, this
film brings fresh insights to King’s impossible journey, his
charismatic leadership and his truly remarkable impact.”
Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King
Papers Project, and with thousands of King’s essays, notes,
letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has
organized King’s writings into a posthumous autobiogra-
phy. In an early student essay, King prophetically penned:
“We cannot have an enlightened democracy with one great
group living in ignorance.... We cannot have a nation order-
ly and sound with one group so
ground down and thwarted that it
is almost forced into unsocial
attitudes and crime.” Such state-
ments, made throughout King’s
career, are skillfully woven
together into a coherent narrative
of the quest for social justice.
The autobiography delves, for
example, into the philosophical
training King received at
Morehouse College, Crozer
Theological Seminary, and
Boston University, where he
consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian
Benjamin Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau,
Gandhi, and Thoreau.
Through King’s voice, the reader intimately shares in his
trials and triumphs, including the Montgomery Boycott, the
1963 “I Have a Dream Speech,” the Selma March, and the
1964 Nobel Peace Prize. In one of his last speeches, King
reminded his audience that “in the final analysis, God does
not judge us by the separate incidents or the separate mis-
takes that we make, but by the total bent of our lives.”
Carson’s skillful editing has created an original argument in
The world is changing and
anyone who thinks he can
live alone is sleeping
through a revolution
Martin Luther King Jr., 1968
Print Books
7) “The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.”
Edited by Clayborne Carson.
Also available on audio cassette
Intellectual Properties Management, Inc. in association
with Warner Books, c1998.
Celebrated Stanford University Historian Clayborne
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