Books written by Dr. Martin Luther King

A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

The first collection of King’s essential writings for high school students and young people A Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most important writings and speeches—carefully selected by teachers across a variety ...
The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings

A collection of the most well-known and treasured writings and speeches of Dr. King, available for the first time as an ebook The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr. is the ultimate collection of Dr. King's most inspirational and ...
I Have a Dream

From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King: “My father’s dream continues to live on from generation to generation, and this beautiful and powerful illustrated edition of his world-changing "I Have a Dream" speech ...
The Trumpet of Conscience

Five lectures delivered for the renowned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Massey Lecture Series in 1967 encompass distinct themes and speak prophetically to today's perils, addressing issues of racial equality, conscience and war; the ...
The Trumpet of Conscience

Each oration in this volume encompasses a distinct theme and speaks prophetically to today’s perils, addressing issues of equality, conscience and war, the mobilization of young people, and nonviolence.
"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice

The Wright brothers had not yet invented that fascinating mechanical bird that would spread its gigantic wings across the skies and soon dwarf distance and place time in the service of man. Einstein had not yet challenged an axiom and ...
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

Early in the morning of January 28, the People's Service Station and Cab Stand was bombed, and another bomb fell at the home of Allen Robertson, a sixty-year-old Negro hospital worker. It was never discovered why these two victims had ...
A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

The classic collection of sixteen sermons preached and compiled by Dr. King As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his most best-known homilies.
Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story

It traces the phenomenal journey of a community and shows how the 28-year-old Dr. King, with his conviction for equality and nonviolence, helped transform the nation and the world. This book was published with two different covers.
Why We Can't Wait

After the conclusion of the campaign and the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963, King further developed the ideas introduced in the letter in Why We Can’t Wait, which tells the story of African American activism in the ...
A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings

The classic collection of sixteen sermons preached and compiled by Dr. King As Dr. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known homilies.
"All Labor Has Dignity"

The collection begins with King’s lectures to unions in the 1960s and includes his addresses during his Poor People’s Campaign, culminating with his momentous “Mountaintop” speech, delivered in support of striking black sanitation ...
The Radical King

They called him ‘the most dangerous man in America.’ . . . This book unearths a radical King that we can no longer sanitize.”
I Have a Dream: Read & Listen Edition

Now read and listen to his words, narrated with the audio recordings from his speech, paired with Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson's magnificent paintings, in this picture book certain to be treasured by children and adults alike.
MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image

MLK: A Celebration in Word and Image is an unprecedented collection of black-and-white photographs combined with stirring quotations by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This treasured collection includes images by legendary photographers such as ...
A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr., for Students

The first collection of King’s essential writings for high school students and young people A Time to Break Silence presents Martin Luther King, Jr.'s most important writings and speeches—carefully selected by teachers across a variety ...
"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice

Introduced and edited by distinguished King scholar Lewis Baldwin, this volume breaks new ground in our understanding of King.
Why We Can't Wait

Explains the Afro-American's dissatisfaction with the slow progress in attaining equal rights that are long overdue
The Trumpet of Conscience

Each oration in this volume encompasses a distinct theme and speaks prophetically to today’s perils, addressing issues of equality, conscience and war, the mobilization of young people, and nonviolence.