The Address To The First Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Mass Meeting: An Unabridged Selection from A Call to Conscience - The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

by Clayborne Carson (Editor), Rosa Parks (Reading), Martin Luther King Jr.

A Call to Conscience is a milestone collection of Dr. King's most influential and best-known speeches. Compiled by Stanford historian Dr. Clayborne Carson, director of the King Papers Project, and by contributing editor Kris Shepard, this volume takes you behind the scenes on an astonishing historical journey-from the small, crowded church in Montgomery, Alabama, where The Birth of a New Nation ignited the modern civil rights movement; to the center of the nation's capital, where I Have a Dream echoed through a nation's conscience; to the Mason Temple in Memphis, where over ten thousand people heard Dr. King give his last, transcendent speech, I've Been to the Mountaintop, the night before his assassination. In twelve important introductions, some of the world"s most renowned leaders and theologians—Andrew Young, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, and Mrs. Rosa Parks...

Audiobook

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Clayborne Carson is professor of history at Stanford University, and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute. Since 1985 he has directed the Martin Luther King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish the papers of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Reviews

[Jonathan · Rating 5 out of 5]

"There comes a time when people get tired of the iron feet of oppression."

This speech is worth listening to in its original audio, if only for the audience response to this great line.

[Megan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Since I listened to this as an audiobook, and since the audio is old and sometimes hard to distinguish, here’s a link to a transcript of the recording:

https://mlkcelebration.com/mlk-the-ma...

This speech isn’t my favorite of King’s, because in hindsight the bus boycotts seem like such a small step. (Especially after reading John Lewis’ “March” series.) But then again, the first step is a paradox in this way: it feels insurmountable before it’s taken, then in hindsight it seems so small. This speech is still worth the 25 minutes, because the first step is always the most important one.

[Greg M. Johnson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Possibly useful but extremely short recording of important speech, if only to hear the voices and the mood of the crowd in the room.

[Kayla Harder · Rating 5 out of 5]

“Let Us Be Dissatisfied” powerful