KING MARTIN LUTHER (1929-1968).

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KING MARTIN LUTHER (1929-1968).
Why We Can’t Wait New York, Harper & Row Publishers, 1964 In-8, XII-178 pp.; 8 pp. plates. Original half cloth. Some offsetting to the front fly leaf, very good dust jacket with slight creases and wear. Dimensions :151 x 221 mm. First edition. Association copy, inscribed by the author: “To my good member Barbara Avery. With Best Wishes. Martin Luther King”. Why We Can’t Wait is about the nonviolent movement against racial segregation in the United States, and specifically the 1963 Birmingham campaign. The book describes 1963 as a landmark year in the civil rights movement, and as the beginning of America’s “Negro Revolution” Published the same year Martin Luther King, Jr. won the Nobel Peace Prize, Why We Can’t Wait was his response to the assassination of President Kennedy as well as his attempt to place the events of 1963 in historical perspective. Includes King’s famous Letter from Birmingham Jail, published here in full for the first time. In 1964, the paperback edition cost 60¢. « Just as lightning makes no sound until it strikes, the Negro Revolution generated quietly. But when it struck, the revealing flash of its power and the impact of its sincerity and fervor displayed a force of a frightening intensity. Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse, and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper… Because there is more to come; because American society is bewildered by the spectacle of the Negro in revolt; because the dimensions are vast and the implications deep in a nation with twenty million Negroes, it is important to understand the history that is being made today.» Why We Can’t Wait (1964), p. 16.  
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