The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Letter from John O. Killens to MLK About a Book Party
Abstract
In this letter, Killens discusses the possibility of a book party in Dr. King's honor. Killens, Ruby Dee, Lofton Mitchell, Ossie Davis, and Harry Belafonte are exploring this idea and believe that at this event many books would be sold and the message of civil rights could be communicated to thousands.