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Subseries 2.1
President Martin Luther King, Jr. files, 1958-1968
Boxes 8 - 11
Biographical Note
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929. He attended Morehouse College, and received his Ph.D. from Boston University. He married Coretta Scott in 1953 and moved to Montgomery, Alabama, to serve as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. King made his mark as leader of the Montgomery Bus Boycott and quickly achieved prominence as a national leader of the Civil Rights Movement. King was a founding member of SCLC and served as president from 1957 until his death in 1968.
Scope and Content Note
The subseries consists of records from the presidency of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. from 1958-1968. Correspondence contains letters addressed to King; typed letters under King's name with automatically generated signatures; and letters addressed to SCLC received during King's presidency. There are very few outgoing letters present. The contents of the subseries reflect the general administrative operations of the president's office during this period and may not illuminate King's individual role as president or his activities outside the organization.
Arrangement Note
Arranged in alphabetical order.
Box | Folder | Content |
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8 | 1 | Agreement between Eva Atlas and the Lawndale Union to End Slums, April 1967 |
8 | 2 | American Baptist Convention retirement plan, 1967 |
8 | 3 | Biographical sketches, undated |
8 | 4 | Chicago, Illinois, 1966-1967 |
8 | 5 | Clayton, Xernona, 1966 |
8 | 6 | Cleveland, Ohio, 1967-1968 |
8 | 7 | Condolence letters to Coretta Scott King, April-May 1968 |
8 | 8 | Cooks, Stoney, "Proposal to Executive Staff," 1967 |
8 | 9 | Correspondence, undated |
8 | 10 | Correspondence, 1961-1963 |
8 | 11 | Correspondence, 1964 January-May |
8 | 12 | Correspondence, 1964 June-December |
9 | 1 | Correspondence, 1965 |
9 | 2 | Correspondence, 1966 January-May |
9 | 3 | Correspondence, 1966 June |
9 | 4 | Correspondence, 1966 July |
9 | 5 | Correspondence, 1966 August |
9 | 6 | Correspondence, 1966 September |
9 | 7 | Correspondence, 1966 October-December |
9 | 8 | Correspondence, 1967 January-May |
10 | 1 | Correspondence, 1967 June-December |
10 | 2 | Correspondence, 1968 January-February |
10 | 3 | Correspondence, 1968 March-April |
10 | 4 | Correspondence regarding donations and business following the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., April-October 1968 |
10 | 5 | Correspondence, unanswered, 1961 |
10 | 6 | "Cost Study of Long Distance Usage for SCLC," 1968 |
10 | 7 | Ebenezer Baptist Church housing project/Southeastern Housing Development Corporation, 1967 |
10 | 8 | Epp, Theodore H., "Christian Maturity-How?," undated |
10 | 9 | Executive staff meeting, August 26-28, 1965 |
10 | 10 | Hoover, J. Edgar, 1964 |
10 | 11 | Instructions for sorting telegrams and compiling telegram lists, undated |
10 | 12 | Invitees to Memphis, Tennessee, April 4, 1968 |
11 | 1 | Mail logs, circa 1968 |
11 | 2 | Meeting minutes, 1966 |
11 | 3 | Memoranda, undated |
11 | 4 | Memoranda, 1958-1968 |
11 | 5 | "Nonviolence: Its Basic Precepts," 1960 |
11 | 6 | Notes, unidentified, undated |
11 | 7 | Operation Reclaim, 1965 |
11 | 8 | Poor People's Campaign, 1967-1968 |
11 | 9 | Project VISION, 1965 |
11 | 10 | Receipts, 1968 |
11 | 11 | Report of the Director to the Executive Board, Ella Baker, 1959 |
11 | 12 | Requests for change of address, undated |
11 | 13 | Royalty statement, 1968 |
11 | 14 | Schedules, undated |
11 | 15 | SCLC Articles of Incorporation, 1958 |
11 | 16 | Southern Rural Research Project, Alabama, 1967 |
11 | 17 | Southwest Alabama Farmers Cooperative Association, 1967 |
11 | 18 | Staff check-out sheet, April 8, 1968 |
11 | 19 | Staff retreat, Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, January 1968 |
11 | 20 | "Statement by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference at National Conference of Clergymen on Operation Breadbasket," Chicago, Illinois, July 12, 1967 |
11 | 21 | Statement of Dr. Corliss Lamont, Chairman, Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, 1966 |
11 | 22 | Steering Committee, 1967-1968 |
11 | 23 | Taxes, 1968 |
11 | 24 | Vine City, Georgia slum project, 1966 |
11 | 25 | Writings, undated |
11 | 26 | Writings by King, 1963-1966 |
11 | 27 | Writings by King, 1967-1968 |