Scope and Contents of the Subseries From the Series: The subseries contains correspondence between Martin Luther King, Jr. and various individuals and organizations from 1953 to 1968. There are letters, telegrams, greeting cards, carbon copies, postcards, invitations, and hate mail. The correspondence is primarily professional, often accompanied by enclosures, with few personal letters. Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal employment, education, housing, passive resistance, poverty,...

Scope and Contents of the Subseries From the Series: The subseries contains correspondence between Martin Luther King, Jr. and various individuals and organizations from 1953 to 1968. There are letters, telegrams, greeting cards, carbon copies, postcards, invitations, and hate mail. The correspondence is primarily professional, often accompanied by enclosures, with few personal letters. Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal employment, education, housing, passive resistance, poverty,...

Scope and contents From the Series: The sheet music is a valuable asset to any musicologist or music lover. It includes several of the classic pieces such as "If I Had a Hammer," "We Shall Overcome," "When the Saints Go Marching In," (translated into several languages) and the Negro National Anthem "Lift Every Voice and Sing." In conjunction with the rest of the collection there is a significant amount of music composed and written by the greats such as W.C. Handy, Langston Hughes,...