Seminar 8
Martin Luther King

Reading:
Martin Luther King, "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," Web Version

The original version appeared in The Atlantic (August 1963) under the title "The Negro is Your Brother" Web Version

Watch the I Have a Dream speech: The Speeches of Martin Luther King (CVC10988)

Bibliography:
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1988.
Taylor Branch, Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998.