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Beacon Press to Publish MLK Series

Announcing an Exclusive Publishing Agreement with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr.

Beacon Press is partnering with the Estate of Martin Luther King Jr. in a new publishing program, "The King Legacy." Beacon will print new editions of previously published King titles and compile Dr. King's writings, sermons, orations, lectures, and prayers into entirely new editions, including significant new introductions by leading scholars. This partnership brings together the legacy of one of the most important civil rights and social justice leaders in the world with one of the oldest and most respected independent publishing houses in America.

The first three titles in the King Legacy series will be published on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday in 2010:

Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. The classic story of nonviolent resistance in America, the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955?1956.
The Trumpet of Conscience. Five lectures delivered by Marting Luther King Jr. in 1967 that reveal his most introspective reflections and last impressions of the movement.
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community. King's analysis of the state of American race relations and the movement after a decade of U.S. civil rights struggles.

Martin Luther King Jr. Resources
-The King Center
-The King Legacy Series on beacon.org
-Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University
-The University of California's The King Papers Project
-Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection
-"Don't Sleep Through the Revolution," Dr. King's Ware Lecture, delivered May 18, 1966, at the Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly

Full post as published by LexLibris on May 28, 2009 (boomark / email).