"Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope."
-"I Have a Dream" Speech, Washington, D.C., August 28, 1963
The Chicago Freedom Movement by 
Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement by 
Critical Insights by
Critical analyses offer an overview of important previous work on Kings writings and speeches while also making new contributions to the study of his written and spoken works. Race, class, and gender are closely examined, along with a discussion of the skill of Kings writing.
From Civil Rights to Human Rights by
"Drawing widely on published and unpublished archival sources, Jackson explains the contexts and meanings of King's increasingly open call for "a radical redistribution of political and economic power" in American cities, the nation, and the world. The mid-1960s ghetto uprisings were in fact revolts against unemployment, powerlessness, police violence, and institutionalized racism, he argued. His final dream, a Poor People's March on Washington, aimed to mobilize Americans across racial and class lines to reverse a national cycle of urban conflict, political backlash, and policy retrenchment. King's vision of economic democracy and international human rights remains a powerful inspiration for those committed to ending racism and poverty in our time."
A Call to Conscience by
Introduction by Andrew Young) -- The address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) mass meeting introduction by Rosa Louise Parks -- The birth of a new nation (introduction by Reverend Leon H. Sullivan) -- Give us the ballot (introduction by the Honorable Walter E. Fauntroy) -- Address at the Freedom Hall rally in Cobo Hall (Introduction by Aretha and Erma Franklin) -- I have a dream (introduction by Dr. Dorothy I. Height) -- Eulogy for the young victims of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing (introduction by the Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth) -- Acceptance address for the Nobel Peace Prize (introduction by His Holiness the Dalai Lama) -- Address at the conclusion of the Selma to Montgomery march (introduction by Representative John Lewis) -- Beyond Vietnam (introduction by Ambassador George McGovern) -- Where do we go from here? (introduction by Senator Edward M. Kennedy) -- I've been to the mountaintop (introduction by Andrew Young).
