Between Jan 15, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday, and April 4, the day of his assassination, read a book by or about Dr. King. Or read several of his sermons or writings like his Nobel Peace Prize Lecture. That’s eleven weeks to learn more about his ideas, philosophy, and message to ready yourself for the struggle ahead for peace and justice.
From what I can tell, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote five books. We could say six or seven because two books are reformulations with additional pieces. For example, Measure of a Man was included in a Strength to Love. See the list below.
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King’s first book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)
In 1959, he published a short book called Measure of a Man. It included sermons “What is a Man” and “The Dimensions of a Complete Life” that would later be compiled into Strength to Love (1963), a book of his most requested sermons.
In 1964, King was named Time’s Man of the Year, received the Nobel Peace Prize, and published Why We Can’t Wait.
Looking back at a decade of Civil Rights struggles, King wrote Where Do We Go From Here? Chaos or Community? (1967).
His next book was the 1967 Conscience for Change. King’s final work followed after his death in 1968. The Trumpet of Conscience includes Conscience for Change and a forward written by Correta Scott King.