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Rev. William Barber Builds a Moral Movement

By Cleve R. Wootson Jr. — 2017

“This moment requires us to push into the national consciousness, but not from the top down, but from the bottom up.”

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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

MLK’s classic account of the first successful large-scale act of nonviolent resistance in America: the Montgomery bus boycott. A young Dr. King wrote Stride Toward Freedom just 2 years after the successful completion of the boycott.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (introduction)
2010
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., isolated himself from the demands of the civil rights movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), Vincent Harding (introduction)
2010
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Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm

Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable. Nonviolence was once considered the highest form of activism and radical change.

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Kazu Haga
2020
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Creating the Culture of Peace: A Clarion Call for Individual and Collective Transformation

The culture of peace and non-violence is essential to human existence, development and progress. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus the norm-setting, forward-looking “Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace”.

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Anwarul K. Chowdhury, Daisaku Ikeda
2020
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Public Power in the Age of Empire

An inspiring exegesis on the roles of democracy and activism in a violent times.

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Arundhati Roy
2004
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MLK: The Other America

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech at Stanford. Here, he expounds on his nonviolent philosophy and methodology.

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Martin Luther King Jr.
2015
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MLK Talks ‘New Phase’ of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News

In 1967, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King spoke with NBC News’ Sander Vanocur about the “new phase” of the struggle for “genuine equality.”

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Martin Luther King Jr.
2018
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A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

A powerful collection of the most essential speeches from famed social activist and key civil rights figure Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This companion volume to A Knock At Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Clayborne Carson, Kris Shepard (editors)
2002
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.

He was a husband, a father, a preacher—and the preeminent leader of a movement that continues to transform America and the world. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the twentieth century’s most influential men and lived one of its most extraordinary lives.

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Martin Luther King Jr., Clayborne Carson (editor)
2001
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I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches that Changed the World (Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

“His life informed us, his dreams sustain us yet.”* On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, “I have a dream . . .

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Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King (foreword), James Washington (editor)
1992
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