I Have A Dream Speech of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Books

This Guide provides an introduction to the speech and scholarship about it, as well as to the March on Washington of August 28, 1963.

To find more books search in our catalog at the bottom of this column

Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of African-American History: 1896 to the Present
Online only. Click on title for bibliographic entry and link to e-version.
Britannica Online
Online only. Click on title for bibliographic entry and link to e-version.
Encyclopedia of African-American Society
In print and online. Click on title for bibliographic entry and link to online version.
King Institute Encyclopedia--Stanford University

Books at MU: A Sample

Behind the Dream: the making of the speech that transformed a nation by Clarence B. Jones and Stuart Connelly
Call Number: E185.97.K5 J576 2011 Memorial Level 2 Reading room
Publication Date: 2011
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
The Rhetoric of Redemption : Kenneth Burke's redemption drama and Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech by David A. Bobbitt
Call Number: E185.97.K5 B58 2004 Memorial Level 2 Reading Room
Publication Date: 2004
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
The Dream : Martin Luther King, Jr., and the speech that inspired a nation by Drew D. Hansen
Call Number: E185.97.K5 H273 2003 Memorial Level 2 Reading Room
Publication Date: 2003
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
I Have a Dream : Martin Luther King Jr. and the future of multicultural America by James Echols
Call Number: E185.97.K5 I17 2004 Memorial Level 2 Reading room
Publication Date: 2004
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
The King Years by Taylor Branch
Call Number: E185.61 .B7913 2013 Memorial Level 2 Reading Room
Publication Date: 2013
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
King's Dream by Eric J. Sundquist and Mark Crispin Miller
Call Number: E185.97.K5 S864 2009 Memorial Level 2 Reading room
Publication Date: 2009
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
One Dream or Two? : justice in America and in the thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Nathan Schlueter
Call Number: E185.97.K5 S35 2002 Memorial Level 2 Reading room
Publication Date: 2002
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
Marching on Washington - The Forging of an American Political Tradition by Lucy G. Barber
Call Number: E743 .B338 2002 Memorial Level 2
Publication Date: 2003
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.
We Want Our Freedom : rhetoric of the Civil Rights Movement by W. Stuart Towns
Call Number: E185.61 .W34 2002 Memorial Level 2 Reading Room
Publication Date: 2002
In print only. Click on title for bibliographic record.