Books/Writings
  • The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Edited by Clayborne Carson)
    (Available New and Used)
  • A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    (Available New and Used)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1929 – 1968
American

Clergyman, civil rights leader. An extraordinary preacher and speaker, he led the struggle of Americans whose forebears had been slaves to overcome racial prejudice and injustice and win full civil rights. Throughout his career, he also forbade violence and insisted on a strategy of "passive resistance" modeled on Mohandas Gandhi's teachings. The high point of his career came with the passage of national Civil Rights legislation. An assassin finally cut short his life, which is now commemorated by a national holiday.

Contemporaries
1895–1951William Wilson
Born 1929Edward Wilson
1878–1958John Watson
1877–1936William Walling
1888–1953Jim Thorpe
1894–1961James Thurber
1879–1935Will Rogers
1885–1954Ruth Rohde
1874–1960John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1839–1937John D. Rockefeller
1935–1977Elvis Presley
1872–1960Emily Post
1892–1964Cole Porter
1885–1945George Patton
1871–1955Maud Park
1929–1994Jacqueline Onassis
Born 1934Ralph Nader
1900–1949Margaret Mitchell
1880–1956H. L. Mencken
1855–1942Clinton Merriam
1890–1944Aimee McPherson
1909–1957Joseph McCarthy
1885–1957Louis Mayer
1893–1961Harpo Marx
1891–1961Chico Marx
1880–1959George Marshall
1925–1965Malcolm X
1880–1964Douglas MacArthur
1887–1948Aldo Leopold
1894–1956Alfred Kinsey
1859–1932Florence Kelley
1880–1968Helen Keller
1869–1940Emma Goldman
1886–1953Douglas Southall Freeman
Born 1933Louis Farrakhan
1897–1962William Faulkner
Born 1941Bob Dylan
1901–1966Walt Disney
1886–1961Ty Cobb
1864–1943George Washington Carver
1888–1955Dale Carnegie
1876–1965George Baker
Born 1935Woody Allen