<I>Why We Can't Wait</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1964
name: label: Written by
content: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., American, 1929 - 1968
label: Published by
content: New American Library, Inc., American, founded 1948
label: Subject of
content: Rock Rest Tourist Home, American, 1948 - 1976
label: Owned by
content: Clayton Sinclair, American
label: Owned by
content: Hazel Sinclair, American
notes: label: Description
content: A soft cover copy of Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The soft cover book has an adhesive binding. The front cover is white with a large black box dominating the top half of the cover. Inside the box is yellow and white text that reads [MARTIN / LUTHER / KING, Jr. / “Martin Luther King has made himself the unchallenged / voice of the Negro people – and the disquieting conscience / of the whites. That voice in turn has infused the Negroes / with the fiber that gives their revolution its stature.” / -TIME / EIGHT PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS]. Below is the box is the book title printed in large black text that reads [WHY WE / CAN’T / WAIT]. At the bottom of the cover, is additional small black text that reads [A SIGNET BOOK COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED]. In the top right corner, is the publisher logo: the name [SIGNET / BOOKS] printed around a black oval with the book price, [60¢] printed in the negative at the center. Above is the text [P2476]. Printed on the spine is the Signet logo, the title of the book, and the author’s name. The back cover is predominately white with black text. The text at the top reads, [WHY WE CAN'T WAIT / is / MARTIN LUTHER KING’S / explanation of the events, the forces, / the pressures behind today’s / - and tomorrow’s - / quest for civil rights.] At the center of the back cover is a black rectangular box with yellow text that reads, [IN THIS BOOK / FOR THE FIRST TIME / ? The complete, full-length text of Dr. King’s / famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail, in / which he answers the churchmen who criti- / cized him for “unwise and untimely” dem- / onstrations. / ? Dr. King’s personal assessment of the / pattern that the Negro Revolution will take / in the future – a chapter in which he spells / out clearly the full political implications of / the civil rights movement… especially in / an election year.]. Printed inside a thin rectangular frame on the bottom third of the back cover is a short biography of King. The publisher’s information is printed in black text at the bottom of the back cover that reads [PUBLISHED BY THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY]. The interior pages are white with black text. Contents include acknowledgments, an introduction, eight chapters, and an index. The chapter titles are [The Negro Revolution, why 1963?], [The Sword That Heals], [Bull Connor's Birmingham], [New Day in Birmingham], [Letter from Birmingham Jail], [Black and White Together], [The Summer of Our Discontent], and [The Days to Come]. The book has 159 pages and five pages of printed black-and-white photographs.
place: label: Place collected
content: Kittery, York County, Maine, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Black Enterprise
label: Topic
content: Black interiors
label: Topic
content: Civil Rights
label: Topic
content: Race discrimination
label: Topic
content: Race relations
label: Topic
content: Resistance
label: Topic
content: Segregation
label: Topic
content: Travel
label: Topic
content: U.S. History, 1961-1969
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Collection title
content: The Rock Rest Tourist Home Collection
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail, Inc.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2011.12.52.20
objectType: label: Type
content: paperbacks
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr.
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product) and adhesive
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 7 1/16 × 4 1/4 × 7/16 in. (18 × 10.8 × 1.1 cm)