The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
King, Alfred Daniel
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A Program for the Public Meeting at Metropolitan Baptist ChurchThis program outlines a two-day Public Meeting sponsored by the SCLC at Metropolitan Baptist Church, where Dr. King was scheduled to deliver the key address. |
Biography of MLKMargaret B. Young details the events and accomplishments of Dr. King's life. |
Brief for the PetitionersThis brochure illustrates questions as well as events pertaining to petitioners during the Civil Rights Movement. Important petitioners, such as Dr. King and Ralph David Abernathy, were convicted and charged with Contempt of Court in violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. |
Injunction from the City of BirminghamSeveral members of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including Dr. King, receive a temporary injunction from the City of Birmingham. |
Letter from Anne Braden to A.D. KingJoe Mulloy will be highlighted in a set of galley proofs for a story in the February issue of The Southern Patriot. Anne Braden informs Reverend A.D. King of the induction refusal by Mr. Mulloy and how it correlates to many SCLC staff members. Mrs. Braden is sending the letter to Dr. King as well and hopes that Rev. A.D. King will participate in this action. |
Letter from William H. Chester to Rev. A. D. KingWilliam Chester, Regional Director of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union, writes Rev. A. D. King as a follow-up to their earlier telephone conversation regarding the transports unions supporting the Negro community in Alabama. Chester provides suggestions for how the SCLC should try to secure the participation of the large unions, such as the Teamsters and the National Maritime Union. Chester also addresses a copy of the letter to Dr. King, Rev. Abernathy and Rev. Shuttlesworth. |
Letter to MLK from Rev. A.D. KingDr. King's brother, Rev. A.D. Williams King, wrote this letter to Dr. King, thanking him for his participation, at the First Baptist Church Installation Services in Birmingham. |
MLK Announces The Jail Sentences Stemming from the 1963 Birmingham DemonstrationsDr. King makes this statement regarding the arrest of himself and other leaders of the 1963 Birmingham struggle. The Supreme Court in 1967 ruled that these leaders unjustly broke the city wide injunction banning demonstrations. Dr. King urges the nation, "Take heed. Do not allow the Bill of Rights to become a prisoner of war." |
MLK Statement Regarding an Attack on the First AmendmentDr. King addresses violations of First Amendment Rights in this statement regarding the events at Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. |
MLK's Funeral Procession OutlineThis document outlines the funeral procession of Dr. King and specifies how many people wide the procession will be. |
Press Release: SCLC Add New MembersThe SCLC reports about the six new members added to its executive board during the Annual Convention held in Savannah, Ga. |
SCLC National Executive Board MeetingThe SCLC conducts a mass meeting with the national executive board in Kentucky. Both members from the SCLC and Kentucky Christian Leadership Conference direct the meeting. The schedule includes an invocation, greetings from various members, an address by Dr. King, and more. |
SCLC Newsletter: January-February 1966This early 1966 SCLC Newsletter reports the organization's recent activity. Main columns focus on Hosea Williams' voter registration work in Birmingham, Alabama and efforts towards slum eradication in Chicago and Atlanta. The document also includes photographic content of Dr. King's public speaking endeavors and evidence of the slum crisis. Consistent school inequities and segregation are the last topics discussed. |
SCLC: MLK Still Most Influential Negro According to StudiesThe SCLC issues a news release stating that Dr. King is the most influential Negro leader in America. Dr. King, along with other prominent members of the SCLC, was serving a five-day jail sentence in Birmingham, Alabama at the time of the news release. |
Suggestions for S.C.L.C.Dr. King drafts a list of suggestions for the SCLC and lists the contact information for several of the organizations members. |
Telegram from Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lamb Toledo to MLKIn this telegram, Mr. and Mrs. Toledo offer support to Dr. King, Ralph Abernathy, A.D. King, and Wyatt Walker. |
We Return to Birmingham Jail to Bear WitnessOn his way to turn themselves in to Birmingham jail again in 1967, Dr. King writes this article in longhand, asserting the purposes of the civil rights activists' civil disobedience. Their unjust incarceration, he states, will allow them to bear witness to an unjust justice system, from Bull Connor's dogs to the US Supreme Court. The Court had just issued a decision supporting Connor's injunction forbidding the protests of the Birmingham campaign, which had led to his first incarceration there in 1963. |