Martin Luther King, Jr
Subtitle: the last interview and other conversations
Series: The last interview series; Last interview series
Publisher: Melville House
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9781612196169
Subjects: African American civil rights workers; Race relations; Interviews; Political and social views; Sources; Civil rights movements; Baptists; Clergy; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Civil rights; History
Other titles: Last interview and other conversations
Description: "As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., whose insistence on equality and peace defined the Civil Rights Movement and forever changed the course of American history. This collection ranges from an early 1961 interview in which King describes his reasons for joining the ministry (after considering medicine), to a 1964 conversation with Robert Penn Warren, to his last interview, which was conducted on stage at the convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, just ten days before King's assassination. Timely, poignant, and inspiring, Martin Luther King, Jr.: the last interview is an essential addition to the Last Interview series"--
Table of contents: title: Editor's Note; title: "The New Negro" : Interview with Richard Heffner, The Open Mind, February 10, 1957; title: "Advice for Living" : Ebony, May 1958; title: Does Segregation Equal Integration? : Interview with Mike Wallace, previously unpublished, June 25, 1958; title: From Who Speaks for the Negro? : Interview with Robert Penn Warren, March 18, 1964; title: Conversation with Martin Luther King : 68th annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly, March 25, 1968.