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Chronology of Events: January 1957-December 1958

1 Jan 1957

"Facing the Challenge of a New Age" Address delivered at NAACP Emancipation Day Rally

4 Jan 1957

To L. Harold DeWolf

4 Jan 1957

From A. Philip Randolph

7 Jan 1957

To A. Philip Randolph

7 Jan 1957

To Gil B. Lloyd

7 Jan 1957

Montgomery Improvement Association Press Release, Bus Protesters Call Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation

10 Jan 1957

To Robert Johnson

11 Jan 1957

From Maxwell M. Rabb

11 Jan 1957

To Dwight D. Eisenhower

11 Jan 1957

To Richard M. Nixon

11 Jan 1957

"A Statement to the South and the Nation" by the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration

11 Jan 1957

From J. Pius Barbour

13 Jan 1957

"The Ways of God in the Midst of Glaring Evil" Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

14 Jan 1957

Address to MIA Mass Meeting at Bethel Baptist Church

18 Jan 1957

To Alfred Hassler

22 Jan 1957

From Kwame Nkrumah

28 Jan 1957

To Fannie E. Scott

28 Jan 1957

"King Says Vision Told Him to Lead Integration Forces"

31 Jan 1957

To Dorothy M. Steere

1 Feb 1957

Maude L. Ballou to Malcolm X

6 Feb 1957

"Nonviolence and Racial Justice"

8 Feb 1957

To Clarence L. Jordan

10 Feb 1957

"For All ... A Non-Segregated Society," A Message for Race Relations Sunday

10 Feb 1957

Interview by Richard D. Heffner for "The Open Mind"

14 Feb 1957

To Dwight D. Eisenhower

14 Feb 1957

To Richard M. Nixon

14 Feb 1957

To Coretta Scott King

14 Feb 1957

From Walter R. McCall

14 Feb 1957

From J. E. Nesbitt

15 Feb 1957

From John Wesley Dobbs

18 Feb 1957

To A.A. Banks, Jr.

25 Feb 1957

From William Robert Miller

26 Feb 1957

To Ralph Abernathy

6 Mar 1957

Interview by Etta Moten Barnett

13 Mar 1957

From Sherman Adams

20 Mar 1957

Telegram to T.H. Randall from Rome on 14 March, 1957

5 Apr 1957

From C.L.R. James

5 Apr 1957

"Call to a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom"

6 Apr 1957

From William Holmes Borders

7 Apr 1957

"The Birth of a New Nation," Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

10 Apr 1957

"A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations," Address Delivered at St. Louis Freedom Rally

12 Apr 1957

From Robert E. Hughes

23 Apr 1957

To William Robert Miller

24 Apr 1957

To F. Thomas Trotter

25 Apr 1957

To Lawrence M. Byrd

25 Apr 1957

"Role of the Church in Facing the Nation's Chief Moral Dilemma," Address Delivered on 25 April, 1957 at the Conference on Christian Faith and Human Relations in Nashville

29 Apr 1957

To Galal Kernahan

30 Apr 1957

To C.L.R. James

1 May 1957

To Charles E. Chamberlain

2 May 1957

To Alexander L. Burns

7 May 1957

To Frank J. Gregory

10 May 1957

From Bayard Rustin

15 May 1957

To Altona Trent Johns

15 May 1957

To June Shagaloff

15 May 1957

To Richard M. Nixon

16 May 1957

To Bernard Shanley

16 May 1957

To M.C. Williams

17 May 1957

"Give Us the Ballot," Address Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

21 May 1957

From Irene Dobbs Jackson

3 Jun 1957

From E.D. Nixon

3 Jun 1957

To Roy Wilkins

12 Jun 1957

To Edward H. Page

12 Jun 1957

To Cynthia Bowles

13 Jun 1957

Statement on Meeting with Richard M. Nixon

15 Jun 1957

From Richard M. Nixon

17 Jun 1957

To Benjamin Elijah Mays

22 Jun 1957

From George D. Kelsey

28 Jun 1957

"Remarks in Acceptance of the Forty-second Spingarn Medal at the Forty-eighth Annual NAACP Convention

5 Jul 1957

To Mordecai Johnson

16 Jul 1957

To Ramona Garrett

18 Jul 1957

From Charles G. Gomillion

18 Jul 1957

Invocation Delivered at Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Crusade

25 Jul 1957

From Charles O. Akuamoa

27 Jul 1957

From Fred L. Shuttlesworth

5 Aug 1957

To Leila M. Barlow

6 Aug 1957

To Charles O. Akuamoa

7 Aug 1957

To Amy Spingarn

7 Aug 1957

From A. Philip Randolph

9 Aug 1957

To Conrad J, Lynn

11 Aug 1957

"Conquering Self-centeredness," Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

20 Aug 1957

From Medgar Wiley Evers

23 Aug 1957

To Roy Wilkins

23 Aug 1957

From Rosa Parks

28 Aug 1957

To Janet Childs Harris

30 Aug 1957

To Richard M. Nixon

31 Aug 1957

To Billy Graham

31 Aug 1957

To T.Y. Rogers

Sept 1957

"Advice For Living"

2 Sept 1957

"A Look to the Future," Address Delivered at Highlander Folk's School's Twenty-fifth Anniversary Meeting

17 Sept 1957

From Richard M. Nixon

25 Sept 1957

To Dwight D. Eisenhower

26 Sept 1957

"Dr King Asks Nonviolence in Little Rock School Crisis"

Oct 1957

"Advice For Living"

3 Oct 1957

From J. Pius Barbour

7 Oct 1957

From Dwight D. Eisenhower

16 Oct 1957

From Harris Wofford

18 Oct 1957

From Joan Daves

23 Oct 1957

Annual Report, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

24 Oct 1957

To Glenn E. Smiley

27 Oct 1957

Interview by Martin Agronsky for "Look Here"

28 Oct 1957

To Alfred Hassler

28 Oct 1957

To Chester Bowles

Nov 1957

"Advice For Living"

5 Nov 1957

To Dwight D. Eisenhower

5 Nov 1957

Press Release, Announcing the Crusade for Citizenship

6 Nov 1957

"The Things That Are God's," Sermon Delivered on 27 October, 1957 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

8 Nov 1957

To Chester Bowles

13 Nov 1957

To Marie F. Rodell

17 Nov 1957

"Loving Your Enemies," Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

18 Nov 1957

From Oliver Tambo

Dec 1957

"Advice For Living"

5 Dec 1957

"Some Things We Must Do," Address Delivered at the Second Annual Institute for Nonviolence and Social Change at Holt Street Baptist Church

20 Dec 1957

To Archibald James Carey

20 Dec 1957

From John Henrik Clarke

23 Dec 1957

To Marie F. Rodell

31 Dec 1957

From Ralph J. Bunche

Jan 1958

"Advice For Living"

14 Jan 1958

From Roy Wilkins

24 Jan 1958

From Stanley D. Levison

27 Jan 1958

From Paul Simon

30 Jan 1958

"His Influence Speaks to World Conscience"

Feb 1958

"Advice For Living"

4 Feb 1958

To the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

6 Feb 1958

To Thurgood Marshall

7 Feb 1958

To Paul Simon

10 Feb 1958

Remarks for Negro Press Week

11 Feb 1958

Interview at Bennett College

12 Feb 1958

Address Delivered at Launching the SCLC Crusade for Citizenship at Greater Bethel AME Church

19 Feb 1958

To Eleanor Roosevelt

26 Feb 1958

From Harry Belafonte

Mar 1958

"Advice For Living"

3 Mar 1958

From Alfred Daniel King

6 Mar 1958

To E.D. Nixon

8 Mar 1958

To Nannie Helen Burroughs

9 Mar 1958

From Norman Cousins and Clarence Pickett

10 Mar 1958

To Bayard Rustin

13 Mar 1958

To Roy Wilkins

17 Mar 1958

To Arthur L. Johnson

19 Mar 1958

To Douglas E. Moore

19 Mar 1958

From Elijah Muhammad

21 Mar 1958

From Hermine I. Popper

25 Mar 1958

To Charles C. Diggs, Jr.

31 Mar 1958

From Martin Luther King, Sr.

31 Mar 1958

To George D. Kelsey

Apr 1958

"Advice For Living"

4 Apr 1958

From George D. Kelsey

6 Apr 1958

"Statement Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage Protesting the Electrocution of Jeremiah Reeves"

9 Apr 1958

To Elijah Muhammad

18 Apr 1958

From Ella J. Baker

May 1958

"Advice For Living"

May 1958

Foreward to A First Step Toward School Integration

5 May 1958

From Melvin Arnold

14 May 1958

Address Delivered at the national Biennial Convention of the American Jewish Congress

24 May 1958

To Bradford P. Laws

27 May 1958

From Hilda S. Proctor

28 May 1958

From Ralph Abernathy

29 May 1958

To Dwight D. Eisenhower

29 May 1958

To Aaron E. Henry

June 1958

"Advice For Living"

7 June 1958

To James P. Coleman

10 June 1958

To Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

16 June 1958

To Ralph Abernathy

20 June 1958

From Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

21 June 1958

To Whitney M. Young

23 June 1958

"Statement to the President of the United States of America"

25 June 1958

Interview by Mike Wallace

26 June 1958

From John Lee Tilley

July 1958

"Advice For Living"

1 July 1958

To Daisy Bates

7 July 1958

To Thomas Kilgore

7 July 1958

To Katie E. Whickam

9 July 1958

To Walter R. McCall

15 July 1958

To James W. Morgan

18 July 1958

To A. Philip Randolph

18 July 1958

To O. Clay Maxwell

18 July 1958

To Thomas C. Hennings

23 July 1958

To Billy Graham

28 July 1958

From Grady Wilson

Aug 1958

"Advice For Living"

5 Aug 1958

To Dwight E. Loder

7 Aug 1958

To J.H. Jackson

8 Aug 1958

To J. Pius Barbour

11 Aug 1958

To Lillian Eugenia Smith

14 Aug 1958

From Lillian Eugenia Smith

15 Aug 1958

To L.H. Holmes

18 Aug 1958

To Rae Brandstein

Sept 1958

"Advice For Living"

1 Sept 1958

"My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence"

2 Sept 1958

To Earl Mazo

2 Sept 1958

To Gardner C. Taylor

4 Sept 1958

From Benjamin J. Davis

4 Sept 1958

From John Lewis

5 Sept 1958

Statement to Eugene Loe

5 Sept 1958

From Harris Wofford

9 Sept 1958

From E.D. Nixon

9 Sept 1958

From Kaka Kalelkar and Sarojini Nanavati

16 Sept 1958

To E.D. Nixon

17 Sept 1958

From J. Raymond Henderson

17 Sept 1958

To Aaron E. Henry

21 Sept 1958

From Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

23 Sept 1958

From A.J. Muste

23 Sept 1958

From Benjamin Elijah Mays

30 Sept 1958

Statement Issued from Harlem Hospital

Oct 1958

"Advice For Living"

6 Oct 1958

To the Montgomery Improvement Association

10 Oct 1958

From R.D. and Effie Crockett

13 Oct 1958

To William B. Hartsfield

13 Oct 1958

To Dwight D. Eisenhower

14 Oct 1958

From Anne Braden

17 Oct 1958

From Rocco C. Siciliano

17 Oct 1958

From George W. Davis

24 Oct 1958

Statement Upon Return to Montgomery

25 Oct 1958

Address at Youth March for Integrated School in Washington, D.C. Delivered by Coretta Scott King

25 Oct 1958

From Herbert W. Vilakazi

28 Oct 1958

From Joachim Prinz

29 Oct 1958

To Wyatt Tee Walker

29 Oct 1958

To Eleanor Roosevelt

Nov 1958

"Advice For Living"

3 Nov 1958

From James M. Lawson

3 Nov 1958

From Stanley D. Levison

5 Nov 1958

To Kenneth B. Keating

8 Nov 1958

To A. Philip Randolph

8 Nov 1958

To George W. Davis

8 Nov 1958

To Georgia Elma Harkness

10 Nov 1958

To Bayard Rustin

11 Nov 1958

From Stewart Meacham

13 Nov 1958

To Darrell Randall

13 Nov 1958

From Dwight D. Eisenhower

17 Nov 1958

From Harry Emerson Fosdick

18 Nov 1958

Annual Report, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church

Dec 1958

"Advice For Living"

3 Dec 1958

To Brother in Christ

4 Dec 1958

To Jerry Wurf

15 Dec 1958

To Stanley D. Levison

17 Dec 1958

To Royce Kershaw

18 Dec 1958

To Richard Bartlett Gregg

22 Dec 1958

To Hilda S. Proctor

22 Dec 1958

From Alfred Hassler

23 Dec 1958

To Gardner C. Taylor

27 Dec 1958

To G. Ramachandran

31 Dec 1958

From Hilda S. Proctor