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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Book Display

Book cover: A darkly radiant vision : the black social gospel in the shadow of MLK
Book cover: King: a Life
Book cover: The Struggle for the People’s King: How Politics Transforms the Memory of the Civil Rights Movement
Book cover: The arc of truth : the thinking of Martin Luther King Jr.
Book cover: Church in color: youth ministry, race, and the theology of Martin Luther King Jr.
Book cover: To shape a new world : essays on the political philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book cover: Breaking white supremacy : Martin Luther King Jr. and the black social gospel

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Items about Dr. King in the Presbyterian Historical Society Archives

"...at the Presbyterian Historical Society, there are quite a few items in the archives about Dr. King, which have been gathered together into a Subject File. Included in that collection of ephemera is Volume 4, Number 4 of 'Religion & Values in Public Life,' a newsletter published by the Harvard Divinity School. The headlining article in this Summer 1996 edition of the newsletter is 'Martin Luther King and the Reinvention of Christianity in Modern America.' The Subject File consists of various articles, publications, and educational materials related to the life and work of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., with creation dates that range from 1974 through 1997. These documents live in the Katie Geneva Cannon collection within [the Presbyterian Historical Society Archives]."

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Books in the Wright Library Collection by Recent MLK Lecturers

Martin Luther King Jr. Lectures at Princeton Seminary

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Open Access Works

The articles listed below are freely available in full text online. Click on the link at the end of each citation to view the article.
 

Article Citations

 

Cannon, Katie G. “Out of the Shadows of Death: Representations of Womanist Homiletical Praxis in the Sacred Rhetoric of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 21, no. 2 (2000): 196-210. https://commons.ptsem.edu/id/princetonseminar2122prin-dmd008

Fluker, Walter Earl. “Transformed Nonconformity: Spirituality, Ethics and Leadership in the Life and Work of Martin Luther King, Jr.” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 25, no. 1 (2004): 27-57. https://commons.ptsem.edu/id/princetonseminar2512prin-dmd008

Franklin, Robert M. “Awesome Music, Great Preaching, and Revolutionary Action: The Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr.” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 23, no. 2 (2002): 174-183. https://commons.ptsem.edu/id/princetonseminar2322prin-dmd006

Howard, M. William. “Martin Luther King, Jr.: Challenge to the Church.” The Princeton Seminary Bulletin 8, no. 2 (1987): 39-43. https://commons.ptsem.edu/id/princetonseminar8219prin-dmd007

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the ARDA and the NY Times

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