B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S spring gifts a p r i l 2 0 2 4 30 MLK'S LAST BOOK, FIRST EDITION 30. KING Jr., Martin Luther. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Evanston, and London, 1967. Octavo, original half black cloth, dust jacket. $1750 First edition of Dr. King’s last book, published the year before he was assassinated. King’s final book was published the year before the legendary civil rights leader was assassinated in Memphis. Based upon his last address as President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered in August 1967, the book discusses issues raised by recent urban uprisings, white backlash and the 1966 shooting of James Meredith. “We have inherited a large house, a great ‘world house’ in which we have to live together—black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Moslem and Hindu.” Copyright page with “First Edition” stated, “D-R” code. A fine copy.
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