Martin Luther King Jr.

Open letter written while imprisoned for protesting segregation, defending nonviolent civil disobedience.

Speech delivered during March on Washington calling for civil and economic rights and end to racism.

Account of Birmingham campaign of 1963 and the broader civil rights movement.

King's final book analyzing the future of civil rights movement and calling for economic justice.

King's account of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and development of his nonviolent philosophy.

King's theological essays on what it means to be fully human — the spiritual, intellectual, and social dimensions of human dignity. The philosophical foundation of his civil rights advocacy.