The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume VI, Advocate of the social Gospel, September 1948-March 1963. / Clayborne Carson [and three others] editors.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• Carson, Clayborne, 1944- editor.

Series:

• Martin Luther King Papers
• The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• United States--Race relations.
• King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968--Archives.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (756 p.) : 1 frontisp.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [2007]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Dedicated to documenting the life of America's best-known advocate for peace and justice, The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. breaks the chronology of its series to present King's never-before-published sermon file. In 1997 Mrs. Coretta Scott King granted the King Papers Project permission to examine papers kept in boxes in the basement of the Kings' home. The most significant finding was a battered cardboard box that held more than two hundred folders containing documents King used to prepare his celebrated sermons. This private collection that King kept in his study sheds considerable light on the theology and preaching preparation of one of the most noted orators of the modern era. These illuminating papers reveal that King's concern about poverty, human rights, and social justice was clearly present in his earliest handwritten sermons, which conveyed a message of faith, hope, and love for the dispossessed. His enduring message can be charted through his years as a seminary student, as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, as a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott, and, ultimately, as an internationally renowned proponent of human rights who saw himself mainly as a preacher and "advocate of the social gospel." Ten of the original and unedited sermons King submitted for publication in the 1963 book Strength to Love and audio versions of King's most famous sermons are the culmination of this groundbreaking work.

Contents:

• Frontmatter
• The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.
• ADVISORY BOARD
• CONTENTS
• List of Papers
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chronology and Sermon List
• Editorial Principles and Practices
• List of Abbreviations
• THE PAPERS
• I. CROZER YEARS
• II. BOSTON YEARS
• III. DEXTER AVENUE BAPTIST CHURCH
• IV. EBENEZER BAPTIST CHURCH
• V. STRENGTH TO LOVE, DRAFTS
• VI. UNDATED HOMILETIC MATERIAL
• ADDENDUM
• Sermon File Inventory
• King's Personal Library: Selected Works
• Calendar of Documents
• Index

Notes:

• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

• 9780520341944
• 0520341945

OCLC:

1224278410