The SCLC Story in Words and Pictures
- Atlanta: Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1964
First Edition. 64 pp., collected texts, illustrated throughout. 4to. Very good. Stiff wrappers. [1895]
A thorough, and richly illustrated, firsthand account of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and its civil rights activism under the leadership of its first president, Martin Luther King Jr. Texts detail the history of SCLC, introduce its staff, and include short essays on various initiatives and actions including voter registration, direct action, the Birmingham campaign, the March on Washington, and more. Also included are an excerpt from King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" and one of the earliest print appearances of his "I Have a Dream" speech, delivered just the previous year. Profusely illustrated with photographs throughout, most of them captioned in a casual and strung-together narrative style. The overall page layout and design are also attractive. In all, an uncommonly intimate document from inside a central organization of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Title
The SCLC Story in Words and Pictures
Author
Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Martin Luther King, Jr. Clayton, Ed (editor).
Condition
Unknown
Publisher
Southern Christian Leadership Conference: Atlanta
Date
1964