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Foreword / Charlayne Hunter-Gault -- PART I. All of God's Children: Toward a Global Vision of Human Liberation. "The vision of a world made new" / speech by MLK, annual meeting of the Women's Convention Auxiliary, National Baptist Convention, St. Louis, MO 1954 -- "The World House" / statement by MLK from "Where do we go from here: chaos or community?" 1967 -- "Revolution and redemption" / address by MLK, European Baptist Assembly, Amsterdam, Holland, 1964 -- PART II. Confronting the Color Bar: Overcoming Racism as a World Problem. "Declaration of Conscience" / joint statement on South African Apartheid by MLK, Bishop James A. Pike, and Eleanor Roosevelt, under the auspices of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), New York City 1957 -- "Appeal for Action Against Apartheid" / joint statement on South African Apartheid by MLK and Chief Albert John Luthuli, under the auspices of the American Committee on Africa (ACOA), New York City 1962 -- "South African Independence" / speech by MLK London England, 1964 -- "Let my people go" / South Africa benefit speech by MLK, Hunter College NYC, 1965 -- "Invitation to South Africa" / letter from MLK to the South African Embassy, 1966 -- "On the world taking a stand on Rhodesia" / comment by MLK, Paris, France, 1965 -- "Racism and the World House" / statement by MLK from "Where do we go from here: chaos or community?" 1967 -- PART III. Breaking the Chains of Colonialism: the Rise of Peoples of Color in the Third World. "Invitation to Ghana" / statement by MLK, Montgomery, AL 1957 -- "The birth of a new nation" / sermon by MLK, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL 1957 -- "Introduction to SW Africa: the U.N.'s Stepchild" / statement by MLK, published by the American Committee on Africa (ACOA) 1959 -- "My talk with Ben Bella" / statement by MLK, New York Amsterdam News, NYC 1962 -- "The negro looks at Africa" / statement by MLK, New York Amsterdam News, NYC 1962 -- "Palm Sunday sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi" / sermon by MLK, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL 1959 -- "My trip to the land of Gandhi" / article by MLK, Ebony, 1959 -- "Jawaharlal Nehru, a leader in the long anti-Colonial struggle" / article by MLK from Legacy of Nehru, Atlanta, GA 1965 -- PART IV. For the Least of These: Launching the Global War on Poverty. "The Octopus of poverty" / statement by MLK "The Mennonite, 1965 -- "Poverty and the World House" / statement by MLK from Where do we go from here" Chaos or community? 1967 -- "Nonviolence and Social Change" / statement by MLK from The trumpet of conscience, 1968 -- PART V. To Study War no More: an Affirmation of World Peace and Human Coexistence. "Address at the 36th annual dinner of the War Resisters League" / address by MLK, NYC 1959 -- "The greatest hope for world peace" / statements by MLK prepared for Redbook Magazine, 1964 -- "The Casualties of the War in Vietnam" / speech by MLK, The Nation Institute, Beverly-Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, 1967 -- "Beyond Vietnam: a time to break silence" / speech by MLK, clergy and laity concerned about Vietnam (CALC) Riverside Church, NYC 1967 -- "The Middle East Question" / statement by MLK and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Chicago, 1967 -- "War and the World House" / statement by MLK from Where do we go from here... 1967 -- PART VI. Toward a positive pluralism: Interfaith Dialogue and the Global Community. "Christianity and African Religions" / statement by MLK from Ebony, 1958 -- "I have never been a religious bigot" / letter from MLK to Mr. M. Bernard Resnikoff, Fairlawn, NJ 1961 -- "A narrow sectarianism that causes me real concern" / letter from MLK to Dr. Harold E. Fey, editor of The Christian Century, 1962 -- "All the great religions of thw world" / statement by MLK prepared for Redbook Magazine, 1964 -- "My Jewish brother!" / article by MLK, New York Amsterdam News, NYC 1966 -- "Buddhists and martyrs of the Civil Rights Movement" / joint statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thich Nhat Hanh, International Committee of Conscience on Vietnam, Nyack NY 1966 |