| The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960 Volume 5 Contributor(s): King, Martin Luther (Author), Carson, Clayborne (Editor), Armstrong, Tenisha Hart (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0520242394 ISBN-13: 9780520242395 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $74.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2005 Annotation: "The editors continue their excellent work. One has a poignant sense of King at the end of his twenties, famous, with a full diary, innumerable demands, a knife scar above his heart, and an unfulfilled mission in his soul."--Peter J. Ling, American and Canadian Studies, University of Nottingham "What a gold mine. The introduction is an extraordinary work of scholarship, not simply extending my understanding of King and the movement, but extending it by putting King in the larger contexts of the late fifties."--Ira Berlin, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College Park |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 323.092 |
| LCCN: 91042336 |
| Series: Martin Luther King Papers |
| Physical Information: 2.1" H x 7.2" W x 10.1" (3.15 lbs) 704 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's - Ethnic Orientation - African American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. has become the definitive record of the most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts of one of America's best-known advocates for peace and justice. Threshold of a New Decade, Volume V of the planned fourteen-volume series, illustrates the growing sophistication and effectiveness of King and the organizations he led while providing an unparalleled look into the surprising emergence of the sit-in protests that sparked the social struggles of the 1960s. During this pivotal period of his career, King traveled to India in early 1959 to meet with Prime Minister Nehru and other associates of Mahatma Gandhi. After returning to Montgomery, King confronted the continuing ineffectiveness of his Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) by demanding personnel changes and agreeing to relocate to Atlanta at the beginning of 1960. King's move took place just before African American students in the South reclaimed the energy of the Montgomery bus boycott with their bold sit-in protests, which King predicted would become an integral part of the history which is reshaping the world, replacing a dying order with modern democracy. He was arrested in October after participating in a sit-in protest in Atlanta. His resulting imprisonment led presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to phone his sympathies to King's wife, Coretta, a move many credit for providing the margin of victory in the close election of 1960. |