Volume VI: Advocate of the Social Gospel, September 1948 – March 1963

As a seminary student and young preacher, Martin Luther King, Jr. challenged the role of the church in preserving segregation and questioned whether the Christian bible was literally true. With the publication of Volume Six, scholars will have a new window into King’s religious beliefs through previously unavailable writings from his early years as a minister.

  
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Chronology
          
Volume V
Volume V: Threshold of a New Decade, January 1959-December 1960
Volume Five illustrates the growing sophistication and effectiveness of King and the organizations he led, while providing an unparalleled look into the surprising emergence of the sit-in protests that sparked the social struggles of the 1960s.  
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Chronology
          
Volume V
Volume IV: Symbol of the Movement, January 1957-December 1958
King emerges as a national and international leader following the success of the bus boycott. He founds the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to help spread the freedom struggle throughout the South, publishes his first book, and meets with President Eisenhower at the White House.  
         
Volume IV
Volume III: Birth of a New Age, December 1955-December 1956
This volume covers the pivotal year of the bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, King's first foray into the leadership of a progressive movement for social change.  
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Chronology
          
Volume III
Volume II: Rediscovering Precious Values, July 1951-November 1955
Documents King's graduate studies at Boston University, including the full text of his doctoral dissertation. Also follows him through his courtship of and marriage to Coretta Scott, and the beginning of his pastorate at Montgomery's Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.  
         
Volume II
Volume I: Called to Serve, January 1929-June 1951
Covers King's childhood and family history, his days at Morehouse College, and culminates in his graduation from Crozer Theological Seminary.  
         
Volume I