Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. Date: September 25, 1959 Location: Montgomery, Ala.? Genre: Letter Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Travels Details In an 8 September letter, former Illinois governor Adlai Stevenson invited King to co-sponsor a tribute dinner for Eleanor Roosevelt. 1 King agrees to the request in the letter below.

Among the topics discussed are civil rights, discrimination, SCLC activities, politics, equal employment, education, housing, passive resistance, poverty, religion, riots, voter registration, the Vietnam War, and other social issues.

Nov 19, 2013 · It was, really, the same thing that Rhett James had thought when he invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to Dallas. That having these men in the city, that hearing them, the hard-edged people...

Sep 15, 2011 · Martin Luther King Jr. shakes hands with Adlai Stevenson, then the U.S. delegate to the United Nations, as President John F. Kennedy looks on, in 1962. (AP)

The Martin Luther King, Jr. collection, donated in 1964, consists of manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, printed material, financial and legal papers, a small number of photographs and other items dating primarily from 1947 to 1964.

File Citation Staff Only Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection (SPE-127) Writings by Martin Luther King, Jr., bulk: 1954-1964 Manuscripts of Books, bulk: 1957 - 1964 Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (New York: Harper, 1958) General Correspondence Stevenson, Adlai E.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. collection, donated in 1964, consists of manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, printed material, financial and legal papers, a small number of photographs and other items dating primarily from 1947 to 1964.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. collection, donated in 1964, consists of manuscripts, notebooks, correspondence, printed material, financial and legal papers, a small number of photographs and other items dating from 1947 to 1963.

Adlai E. Stevenson was a U.S. political leader and diplomat who helped found the United Nations (UN), where he served as chief U.S. delegate (1961–65); he is mainly remembered by his countrymen as the eloquent, witty, but unsuccessful Democratic candidate for …

At the Southern Regional Council office in Atlanta, King has lunch with Adlai Stevenson and trustees of the Field Foundation.