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Becoming King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of a National Leader by Troy Jackson. E 185.97 .K5 J343 2008
April 4, 1968 by Michael Eric Dyson. E185.97.K5 D96 2008
Going Down Jericho Road by Michael K. Honey. HD5325.S2572 1968 M465 2007
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-1968 by Taylor Branch. 973.92 B 7-3
Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement by Jill Karson (Editor). E185 .L43 2005
To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955-1968 by Stewart Burns, 2004. E185.97.K5 B798 2004
Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the Civil Rights Struggle of the 1950s and 1960s: A Brief History with Documents by David Howard-Pitney, editor, 2004. E185.61 .H85 2004
Act of State: the Execution of Martin Luther King by William F. Pepper, 2003. 323.4092 K2-53
Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion by Lewis V. Baldwin et al. 2002. 323.4092 K 2-51
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Marshall Frady, 2002. 323.4092 K 2-48
King Came Preaching: the Pulpit Power of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Mervyn A. Warren, 2001. 323.4092 K 2-50
America Reborn: a Twentieth-century Narrative in Twenty-six Lives by Martin Walker, 2000. 920.073 W 8
I May Not Get There With You: the True Martin Luther King, Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson, 2000. 323.4092 K 2-45
King: the Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Charles Richard Johnson, 2000. 323.4092 K 2-46
Community, Violence, and Peace : Aldo Leopold, Mohandas K. Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Gautama the Buddha in the Twenty-first Century by A. L. Herman, 1999. 303.6 H 1
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 by Taylor Branch, 1998. 973.92 B 7-2
Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Claiborne Carson, 1998. 323.4092 K 2-42
Last Crusade: Martin Luther King, Jr., the FBI, and the Poor People's Campaign by Gerald D. McKnight, 1998. 323.1196 M2
Toward a Theology of Radical Involvement: the Theological Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Luther D. Ivory, 1997. 323.4092 K 2-44
Martin Luther King, the Inconvenient Hero by Vincent Harding, 1996. 323.4092 K 2-43
Words of Martin Luther King Junior selected by Coretta Scott King, 1996. 323.4092 K 1-12
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Adam Fairclough, 1995. 323.4092 K 2-35
He Had a Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement by Flip Schulke, 1995. 323.4029 K 2-34
King Among the Theologians by Noel Leo Erskine; foreword by Bernice A. King, 1994. 323.4092 K 2-39
Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Rights Movement by James R. Ralph Jr., 1993. 323.4092 K 2-36
We Shall Overcome: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Black Freedom Struggle, edited by Peter J. Albert and Ronald Hoffman, 1990. 323.4092 K 2-32
Black Leadership in America: from Booker T. Washington to Jesse Jackson by John White, 1990. 973.0496 W 3
Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 by Taylor Branch, 1988. 973.92 B 7
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Apostle of Militant Nonviolence by James A. Colaiaco,1988. 323.4092 K 2-26
Martin Luther King, Jr.: a Profile, edited by C. Eric Lincoln. 323.4092 K 2-5 1984
Code Name "Zorro”: the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, 1977. 323.4092 K 2-22
The King God Didn't Save; Reflections on the Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr., by John A. Williams. 323.4092 K 2-9
I Have a Dream: the Life and Times of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Lenwood G. Davis, 1969. 323.4092 K 2-11
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. King, Coretta Scott King, 1969. 323.4092 K 2
To Kill a Black Man by Louis E. Lomax, 1968. 301.45 L 8
What Manner of Man; a Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. With an introd. by Benjamin E. Mays. Bennett, Lerone, 1964. 323.4092 K2-2
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Theology of Resistance by
It has been nearly fifty years since Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Appraisals of King's contributions began almost immediately and continue to this day. The author explores a great many of King's chief ideas and socio-ethical practices: his concept of a moral universe, his doctrine of human dignity, his belief that not all suffering is redemptive, his brand of personalism, his contribution to the development of social ethics, the inclusion of young people in the movement, sexism as a contradiction to his personalism, the problem of black-on-black violence, and others. The book reveals both the strengths and the limitations in King's theological socio-ethical project, and shows him to have relentlessly applied personalist ideas to organized nonviolent resistance campaigns in order to change the world. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by 
Burial for a King: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Funeral and the Week That Transformed Atlanta and Rocked the Nation by 
Behind the Dream : the Making of the Speech That Transformed a Nation by 
Hellhound on his trail : the stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin by 
The Speech: The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Dream by 
The Domestication of Martin Luther King Jr by 
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by
The Washington Post's Books to Read in 2017 The New York Times Book ReviewEditors' Choice USA Today, "New and Noteworthy" Read it Forward, Favorite Reads of January 2017 AParade MagazinePick "This book is distinctlyCoretta's story . . . particularly absorbing. . . generous, in a manner that is unfashionable in our culture."--New York Times Book Review "Eloquent . . . inspirational"--USA Today The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (The King Center), and singular twentieth-century American civil and human rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to Rev. Dr. Barbara Reynolds. Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stayhome with the children. But in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard bearer, and so much more. As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop The King Center as a citadel for world peace, lobbied for fifteen years for the US national holiday in honor of her husband, championed for women's, workers' and gay rights and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom and human dignity. Coretta's is a love story, a family saga, and the memoir of an extraordinary black woman in twentieth-century America, a brave leader who, in the face of terrorism and violent hatred, stood committed, proud, forgiving, nonviolent, and hopeful every day of her life.
Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King by 
A Nation on Fire : America in the Wake of the King Assassination by 
Martin Luther King Jr. , Heroism, and African American Literature by 
Origins of the Dream : Hughes's poetry and King's rhetoric by
"Majestic. Grounded in astute interpretations of how speech acts function in history, this book is an exemplary model for future inquiries about the confluence of thought, poetry, and social action."--Jerry Ward Jr., coeditor of The Cambridge History of African American Literature "A vade mecum for those interested in the cultural ingredients, the political values, and the artistic sensibilities that united Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King Jr. in spirit, thought, and outlook. Masterfully conceived, meticulously researched, and gracefully written, this book breaks new ground."--Lewis V. Baldwin, author of There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. "Archival material is spotlighted in Miller's exploration of the ways Martin Luther King Jr. enlarged the appeal of his rhetoric by using poetry in his speeches. Readers will emerge with a greater appreciation of both King and Langston Hughes."--Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper, editor of The Later Simple Stories (The Collected Works of Langston Hughes, Volume 8) "Miller's study provides an original, engaging and provocative thesis that explores the hitherto unexplored links between two twentieth century African American icons."--John A. Kirk, editor of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement: Controversies and Debates For years, some scholars have privately suspected Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech was connected to Langston Hughes's poetry, and the link between the two was purposefully veiled through careful allusions in King's orations. In Origins of the Dream, W. Jason Miller lifts that veil to demonstrate how Hughes's revolutionary poetry became a measurable inflection in King's voice, and that the influence can be found in more than just the one famous speech. Miller contends that by employing Hughes's metaphors in his speeches, King negotiated a political climate that sought to silence the poet's subversive voice. He argues that by using allusion rather than quotation, King avoided intensifying the threats and accusations against him, while allowing the nation to unconsciously embrace the incendiary ideas behind Hughes's poetry.