The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956 (Martin Luther King Papers)
Director and senior editor of the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project, Carson (history, Stanford Univ.) presents another successful effort by the project to research and document the Montgomery bus boycott and Martin Luther King Jr.'s elevation to prominent Civil Rights proponent. It contains annotated transcriptions of King's vital sermons, speeches, correspondence, published writings, unpublished manuscripts, and so on. Like the preceding volumes (Vol. 1: Called To Serve, Jan. 1929-June, 1951, 1992; Vol. 2: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951-Nov. 1955, 1994), it includes a calendar of documents with an extensive list of important scholarly King-related primary and secondary sources covering 1954-56. Overall, it is a comprehensive, in-depth, and focused documentation. Highly recommended for African American studies collections.?Edward G. McCormack Lib., Univ. of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Lib., Long BeachCopyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.