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Draft, ''A Summer of Discontent,'' Why We Can't Wait

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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Place Written
[Atlanta, Ga.]
Document Date
[12/1963-5/1964]
Genre
Essay
Document Type
Document
Type of Writing
Typed
Autograph -- author's hand
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Author
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Author Dates
1929-1968
Document ID
640500-020
Document Date
[12/1963-5/1964]
Type of Writing
Typed
Autograph -- author's hand
Document Type
Document
Type of Version
Draft
Status
Undecided
Place Written
[Atlanta, Ga.]
Genre
Essay
Document Length
30 pp.
Dates
6/12/1963
8/28/1963
7/11/1963
Names
Reston, James [New York Times Company]
Thompson, Allen C.
Evers, Medgar Wiley
Doar, John [United States. Dept. of Justice]
Lincoln, Abraham
Beckwith, Byron de la
Waller, William L.
Flannery, Harold J.
Shuttlesworth, Fred
Marshall, Burke
Jesus Christ
Stinson, Julius
Holt, Len
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald)
Miche, Thomas J.
Aiken, Archibald M.
Richardson, Gloria
Hart, Philip A. (Philip Aloysius)
Hansberry, Lorraine
Clark, Kenneth Bancroft
Jones, Clarence B.
Horne, Lena
Taylor, Gardner C.
Galamison, Milton [Siloam Prebyterian Church (Brooklyn, N.Y.)]
Ray, Sandy F.
Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand)
Ahmann, Mathew H.
Prinz, Joachim [American Jewish Congress]
Spike, Robert W. (Robert Warren)
Rockefeller, Nelson A. (Nelson Aldrich)
Lichtenberger, Arthur
Carter, Robert L. [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)]
Douglass, Truman B.
Blake, Eugene Carson [United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.]
Organizations
New York Times Company
Siloam Prebyterian Church (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
National Conference on Religion and Race, Chicago, 1963
National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America
Catholic Interracial Council
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
United States. Internal Revenue Service
United States. Dept. of Justice
American Jewish Congress
American Baptist Convention
Ku Klux Klan
Places
Philadelphia, Pa.
Harlem, N.Y.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Albany, Ga.
Birmingham, Ala.
Montgomery, Ala.
Nashville, Tenn.
Knoxville, Tenn.
Topics
Why We Can't Wait
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Publications
March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963
Birmingham, 1963
Civil Disobedience
Civil rights movements
Discrimination in housing
Discrimination in Employment
Discrimination in public accomodations
Police - Complaints against
Church and Race Relations
Catholic Church
Afro Americans - Jewish relations
Arrest
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Public Speaking
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Arrests
Other Topics
Christianity in Crisis
Code for Location of Original
MLKP-MBU
Location of Original
Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, 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
6/2/1998 12:00:00 AM
Date Verified
06/08/1998
Date Updated
4/8/2025 8:27:02 AM
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