Draft, ''Why We Can't Wait''
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- Author
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Place Written
- Atlanta, Ga.
- Document Date
- 1/1964
- Genre
- Book
- Document Type
- Document
- Type of Writing
- Typed
- Autograph -- author's hand
- Handwritten -- other than author's hand
- Author
- King, Martin Luther, Jr.
- Author Dates
- 1929-1968
- Author Affiliation
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Document ID
- 640100-005
- Document Date
- 1/1964
- Type of Writing
- Typed
- Autograph -- author's hand
- Handwritten -- other than author's hand
- Document Type
- Document
- Type of Version
- Draft
- Status
- Cal. 8
- Place Written
- Atlanta, Ga.
- Genre
- Book
- Document Length
- 121 pp.
- Dates
- 6/16/1963
- 4/3/1963
- 4/25/1963
- 5/5/1963
- 4/12/1963-6/24/1963
- 6/30/1963
- 7/7/1963
- 7/14/1963
- 6/3/1963
- 6/4/1963
- 6/20/1963
- 7/10/1963
- 5/16/1963
- 1956
- 7/6/1963
- 6/10/1963
- 8/1962
- 7/3/1963
- 8/5/1963
- 6/26/1963
- 6/15/1963
- 5/24/1963
- 5/17/1954
- 1957
- 1/1963
- 1955
- 5/1962
- 9/1962
- 3/18/1963
- 3/19/1963
- 2/4/1963
- 3/1/1963
- 3/5/1963
- 4/2/1963
- 3/31/1963
- 4/14/1963
- 4/11/1963
- 4/15/1963
- 1960
- 4/20/1963
- 5/2/1963
- 5/8/1963
- 5/10/1963
- 5/11/1963
- 5/12/1963
- Names
- Washington, George
- Attucks, Crispus
- Banneker, Benjamin
- L'Enfant, Pierre Charles
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald) [United States. White House]
- Evers, Medgar Wiley
- Beckwith, Byron De La
- Reston, James [New York Times Company]
- Connor, Eugene [Birmingham (Ala.). City Commission]
- Gregory, Dick
- Wilkins, Roy
- Moore, William
- Moore, William (Mrs.)
- Wallace, George C. (George Corley) [Alabama. Office of the Governor]
- Brewer, Nadine [Metropolitan Opera Company]
- Harper, Elinor [Metropolitan Opera Company]
- Allen, Ivan [Atlanta (Ga.). Office of the Mayor]
- Wilson, Edgar H. [Macon (Ga.). Office of the Mayor]
- Maclean, Malcolm R. [Savannah (Ga.). Office of the Mayor]
- Cowger, William O. [Louisville (Ky.). Office of the Mayor]
- Combs, Burt T. [Kentucky. Office of the Governor]
- Gremillion, Jack P. F. [Louisiana. Office of the Attorney General]
- Thompson, Allen C. [Jackson (Miss.). Office of the Mayor]
- Doar, John [United States. Dept. of Justice]
- Waller, William L. [Hinds County (Miss.). Office of the District Attorney]
- Henry, Aaron [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)]
- Diggs, Charles C.
- Burnley, W. C. (William Clayton) [Greenville (Miss.). Police Dept.]
- Sanford, Terry [North Carolina. Office of the Governor]
- Clark, A. Wilbur [Fayetteville (N.C.). Office of the Mayor]
- Enloe, William G. [Raleigh (N.C.). Office of the Mayor]
- Erwin, William J. [Dan River Mills]
- Stinson, Julian R. [Danville (Va.). Office of the Mayor]
- Holt, Len
- Flannery, J. Harold [United States. Dept. of Justice]
- Aiken, Archibald M. [Danville (Va.). Corporation Court]
- Michie, Thomas J. [United States. District Court (Virginia : Western District)]
- Sheppard, Eleanor [Richmond (Va.). Office of the Mayor]
- Johnson, Samuel
- Raubinger, Frederick M. [New Jersey. Dept. of Education]
- Carter, Robert L. [NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund]
- Zuber, Paul B.
- Richardson, Gloria [Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee]
- Goldwag, Arnold [Congress of Racial Equality]
- Henry, Winder Laird [Dorchester County (Md.). Circuit Court]
- Hart, Philip A. (Philip Aloysius) [United States. Congress. Senate]
- Kennedy, Robert F. [United States. Dept. of Justice]
- Baldwin, James
- Baldwin, David
- Hansberry, Lorraine
- Belafonte, Harry
- Horne, Lena
- Clark, Kenneth Bancroft [City College of New York (New York, N.Y.)]
- Smith, Jerome M.
- Berry, Edwin C. [National Urban League]
- Tate, Hugh J. [Philadelphia (Pa.). Office of the Mayor]
- Van Winkle, Rip
- Jefferson, Thomas
- Sizemore, Ralph
- Aaron, Judge
- McDonald, Dora E.
- Shuttlesworth, Fred L. [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]
- Pitts, Lucius H. [Miles College (Fairfield, Ala.)]
- Gaston, A. G. (Arthur George)
- Gardner, Edward Hall [Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)]
- Shortridge, William E.
- Drew, John J.
- Walker, Wyatt Tee [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
- Abernathy, Ralph [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
- Boutwell, Albert Burton [Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor]
- King, Tom
- Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich) [New York. Office of the Governor]
- Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand) [New York (N.Y.). Office of the Mayor]
- Robinson, Marvin T. [Western Christian Leadership Conference]
- Stovall, Edward [Western Christian Leadership Conference]
- Dawkins, Maurice A. [Western Christian Leadership Conference]
- Collins, Mansfield [Western Christian Leadership Conference]
- Harris, Curtis [Virginia Christian Leadership Conference]
- Reid, Milton A. [Virginia Christian Leadership Conference]
- Wood, Virgil A. [Virginia Christian Leadership Conference]
- Pollard, Francis
- Lawson, James M. [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
- Bevel, James L. (James Luther) [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
- Nash, Diane [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
- Young, Andrew [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
- Lee, Bernard Scott [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
- Cotton, Dorothy F. [Southern Christian Leadership Conference]
- Jesus Christ
- Bunche, Ralph J. (Ralph Johnson)
- Robinson, Jackie
- Anderson, Marian
- Farmer, James [Congress of Racial Equality]
- Pritchett, Laurie [Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.]
- King, Coretta Scott
- King, Bernice A.
- Shores, Arthur D. (Arthur Davis)
- Billingsley, Orzell
- Jones, Clarence B.
- Billups, Charles
- Elliott, J. Robert [United States. District Court (Georgia : Middle District)]
- Marshall, Burke [United States. Dept. of Justice]
- Dolan, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis) [United States. Dept. of Justice]
- DeMille, Cecil
- Walker, Theresa Ann
- King, Alfred Daniel
- Organizations
- Holy Family Hospital (Birmingham, Ala.)
- United States. Marine Corps
- United States. Congress. House of Representatives
- United States. Congress. Senate
- United States. White House
- University of Mississippi (Oxford, Miss.)
- University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, Ala.)
- New York Times Company
- Leflore County (Miss.). Courthouse
- United States. Commission on Civil Rights
- Mississippi. Office of the Governor
- F. W. Woolworth and Company
- Walgreen Co.
- Metropolitan Opera Company
- Atlanta (Ga.). Chamber of Commerce
- Atlanta (Ga.). Office of the Mayor
- University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.)
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- S.C.L.C. Operation Breadbasket
- Atlanta Committee for Cooperative Action
- Committee on Appeal for Human Rights
- First Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Macon (Ga.). Office of the Mayor
- Augusta Chronicle-Herald
- Howard Johnson Restaurant (Savannah, Ga.)
- Savannah (Ga.). City Commission
- Savannah (Ga.). Chamber of Commerce
- Savannah (Ga.). Office of the Mayor
- Georgia. Dept. of Public Safety
- Ku Klux Klan
- Louisville (Ky.). Human Relations Committee
- Louisville (Ky.). Board of Aldermen
- Louisville (Ky.). Office of the Mayor
- Kentucky. Office of the Governor
- Louisiana. State Capitol
- Louisiana. Office of the Attorney General
- Jackson (Miss.). Office of the Mayor
- United States. Dept. of Justice
- Hinds County (Miss.). Office of the District Attorney
- United States. Internal Revenue Service
- Mississippi. Supreme Court
- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.)
- Greenville (Miss.). Police Dept.
- North Carolina. Office of the Governor
- Charlotte (N.C.). Chamber of Commerce
- Durham (N.C.). City Council
- Fayetteville (N.C.). Office of the Mayor
- Raleigh (N.C.). Office of the Mayor
- S. H. Kress and Company
- W. T. Grant Company
- H. L. Green Company
- Danville (Va.). Office of the Mayor
- Danville (Va.). City Council
- Danville (Va.). Corporation Court
- United States. District Court (Virginia : Western District)
- Richmond (Va.). Office of the Mayor
- Parker Field (Richmond, Va.)
- Kentucky. General Assembly
- New Jersey. Dept. of Education
- NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
- Congress of Racial Equality
- Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee
- Dorchester County (Md.). Circuit Court
- City College of New York (New York, N.Y.)
- National Urban League
- Philadelphia (Pa.). Office of the Mayor
- United States. Supreme Court
- Birmingham Barons (Baseball team)
- United States. Interstate Commerce Commission
- Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights (ACMHR)
- Miles College (Fairfield, Ala.)
- Dorchester Center (Midway, Ga.)
- A. G. Gaston Motel (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Birmingham (Ala.). Office of the Mayor
- New York (N.Y.). Office of the Mayor
- New York. Office of the Governor
- Western Christian Leadership Conference
- Virginia Christian Leadership Conference
- Southern Regional Council
- Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tenn.)
- Alabama State College (Montgomery, Ala.)
- Washington Post
- Birmingham World (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Senior Citizens Committee (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Birmingham (Ala.). Chamber of Commerce
- Birmingham (Ala.). Police Dept.
- Albany (Ga.). Police Dept.
- United States. District Court (Georgia : Middle District)
- New Pilgrim Baptist Church (Birmingham, Ala.)
- Alabama. Dept. of Public Safety
- Alabama. National Guard
- Places
- New York, N.Y.
- Birmingham, Ala.
- Valley Forge, Pa.
- Washington, D.C.
- Montgomery, Ala.
- Brooklyn, N.Y.
- Albany, Ga.
- Leflore County, Miss.
- Attalla, Ala.
- Hot Springs, Ark.
- Augusta, Ga.
- Macon, Ga.
- Rome, Ga.
- Savannah, Ga.
- Louisville, Ky.
- Bowling Green, Ky.
- Hopkinsville, Ky.
- Danville, Ky.
- Frankfort, Ky.
- Paducah, Ky.
- Baton Rouge, La.
- Buras, La.
- New Orleans, La.
- Jackson, Miss.
- Clarksdale, Miss.
- Canton, Miss.
- Greenville, Miss.
- Greenwood, Miss.
- Greenville, N.C.
- Charlotte, N.C.
- Durham, N.C.
- Fayetteville, N.C.
- Raleigh, N.C.
- Greenville, S.C.
- Columbia, S.C.
- Danville, Va.
- Norfolk, Va.
- Charlottesville, Va.
- Richmond, Va.
- Oklahoma
- Texas
- Englewood, N.J.
- Philadelphia, Pa.
- Cambridge, Md.
- Michigan
- Tallahassee, Fla.
- Chattanooga, Tenn.
- Los Angeles, Calif.
- Chicago, Ill.
- Talladega, Ala.
- Topics
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications
- Birmingham, 1963
- Montgomery Bus Boycott
- Sit-ins
- Police - Complaints against
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests
- Freedom songs
- Afro-Americans - Economic conditions
- Albany Movement
- Boycotts
- Brown vs. Board of Education, Topeka, Kansas
- Direct action
- Student movements
- Why We Can't Wait
- Discrimination in public accommodations
- Discrimination in Employment
- Federal intervention
- Nonviolence
- Afro-Americans--Intimidation of
- Martin Luther King, Jr. - Political and Social views
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference--strategic planning
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference--fund raising
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference--meetings
- Southern Christian Leadership Conference--relations with other organizations
- Western Christian Leadership Conference
- Other Topics
- The True Story of Birmingham
- A Summer of Discontent
- New Day in Birmingham
- Why We Can't Wait
- Code for Location of Original
- MLKP-MBU
- Location of Original
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass.
- Location of Original - Detail
- Box 88A, folder 9
- Copy Location (1)
- MLKPP, Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
- Date Created
- 5/29/1998 12:00:00 AM
- Date Verified
- 06/08/1998
- 4/14/2022 dalai
- Date Updated
- 11/28/2022 6:15:18 PM
