KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR

Additional reading King's letters, speeches, sermons, and other documents are collected in Clayborne Carson et al. (eds.), The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1992 ). James Melvin Washington (ed.), A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1986, reissued 1991), is an anthology.Biographies include David Levering Lewis, King, 2nd ed. (1978); Stephen B. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound (1982, reprinted 1994); Frederick L. Downing, To See the Promised Land (1986), a psychohistorical study; Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters (1988), focusing on King in the history of the American civil-rights movement, 195463; and David J. Garrow, Bearing the Cross (1986).Studies of his intellectual influences and sources are John J. Ansbro, Martin Luther King, Jr. (1982); Peter J. Albert and Ronald Hoffman (eds.), We Shall Overcome (1990); Lewis V. Baldwin, There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1991); Keith D. Miller, Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Its Sources (1992); and James H. Cone, Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare (1991). Richard Lischer, The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Word That Moved America (1995), analyzes his spoken sermons.