| Date | Title |
| 2 Dec 1955 |
Leaflet, "Don't Ride the Bus" (facsimile) |
| 5 Dec 1955 |
Minutes of Montgomery Improvement Association Founding Meeting, by U. J. Fields |
| 5 Dec 1955 |
MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church |
| 8 Dec 1955 |
To the National City Lines, Inc. |
| 10 Dec 1955 |
"Statement of Negro Citizens on Bus Situation" |
| 12 Dec 1955 |
From H. Edward Whitaker |
| 15 Dec 1955 |
Program for MIA Mass Meeting at First Baptist Church |
| 15 Dec 1955 |
To M. C. Ballenger |
| 21 Dec 1955 |
To Ralph W. Riley |
| 21 Dec 1955 |
From Walter C. Carrington |
| 25 Dec 1955 |
“To the Montgomery Public” |
| 27 Dec 1955 |
To Archibald James Carey, Jr. |
| 3 Jan 1956 |
From Aubrey Willis Williams |
| 4 Jan 1956 |
FBI Special Agent in Charge, Mobile, to J. Edgar Hoover (facsimile) |
| 9 Jan 1956 |
To the Commissioners of the City of Montgomery |
| 11 Jan 1956 |
From Earl B. Dickerson |
| 18 Jan 1956 |
From H. Edward Whitaker |
| 22 Jan 1956 |
MIA Press Release: The Bus Protest Is Still On |
| 23 Jan 1956 |
Notes on MIA Executive Board Meeting, by Donald T. Ferron |
| 26 Jan 1956 |
From Martin Luther King, Sr. |
| 26 Jan 1956 |
Complaint, City of Montgomery v. Martin L. King (facsimile) |
| 27 Jan 1956 |
“To the Citizens of Montgomery” |
| 28 Jan 1956 |
To Roy Wilkins |
| 30 Jan 1956 |
Notes on MIA Executive Board Meeting, by Donald T. Ferron |
| 30 Jan 1956 |
To H. Edward Whitaker |
| 30 Jan 1956 |
Notes on MIA Mass Meeting at First Baptist Church, by Willie Mae Lee |
| 31 Jan 1956 |
“Blast Rocks Residence of Bus Boycott Leader,” by Joe Azbell |
| 31 Jan 1956 |
From Pinkie S. Franklin |
| 31 Jan 1956 |
From J. Pius Barbour |
| 1 Feb 1956 |
From Major J. Jones |
| 1 Feb 1956 |
From Walter R. McCall |
| 2 Feb 1956 |
From Frank L. Stanley |
| 2 Feb 1956 |
Notes on MIA Executive Board Meeting, by Donald T. Ferron |
| 4 Feb 1956 |
Interview by Donald T. Ferron |
| 4 Feb 1956 |
From Julian O. Grayson |
| 5 Feb 1956 |
From Milton Britton |
| 7 Feb 1956 |
To Fred Drake |
| 11 Feb 1956 |
From Samuel D. Proctor |
| 16 Feb 1956 |
From Marcus Garvey Wood |
| 17 Feb 1956 |
From Sankey L. Blanton |
| 20 Feb 1956 |
From George W. Davis |
| 21 Feb 1956 |
Indictment, State of Alabama v. M. L. King, J., et al. (facsimile) |
| 22 Feb 1956 |
From Ralph J. Bunche |
| 22 Feb 1956 |
From Roy Wilkins |
| 24 Feb 1956 |
“Negroes Pledge to Keep Boycott,” by Wayne Phillips |
| 24 Feb 1956 |
From Charles R. Lawrence |
| 24 Feb 1956 |
From Ella J. Baker |
| 24 Feb 1956 |
From Archibald James Carey, Jr. |
| 24 Feb 1956 |
From William D. Jones |
| 24 Feb 1956 |
From Wade H. McKinney |
| 24 Feb 1956 |
From Peter A. Bertocci |
| 25 Feb 1956 |
From Kelly Miller Smith |
| 27 Feb 1956 |
Notes on MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church, by Donald T. Ferron |
| 28 Feb 1956 |
To William H. Gray, Jr. |
| 28 Feb 1956 |
From George D. Kelsey |
| 28 Feb 1956 |
From William Jones |
| 29 Feb 1956 |
From Alice Neal |
| 29 Feb 1956 |
From Jesse Jai McNeil |
1 Mar 1956
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Notes on MIA Mass Meeting at Hutchinson Street Baptist Church, by Donald T. Ferron |
| 3 Mar 1956 |
To Roy Wilkins |
| 3 Mar 1956 |
To Archibald James Carey, Jr. |
| 4 Mar 1956 |
From S. Paul Schilling |
| 5 Mar 1956 |
From J. H. Jackson |
| 5 Mar 1956 |
From Leonard G. Carr |
| 5 Mar 1956 |
From Eunice Guy |
| 6 Mar 1956 |
From William Robert Miller |
| 6 Mar 1956 |
From Earline Browning |
| 7 Mar 1956 |
From Thomas G. Kilgore, Jr. |
| 7 Mar 1956 |
To J. H. Jackson |
| 8 Mar 1956 |
From Bayard Rustin |
| 8 Mar 1956 |
From George D. Kelsey |
| 8 Mar 1956 |
From Roy Wilkins |
| 9 Mar 1956 |
From William J. Faulkner |
| 10 Mar 1956 |
From Lillian Eugenia Smith |
| 13 Mar 1956 |
From John Dockery |
| 13 Mar 1956 |
To J. Pius Barbour |
| 14 Mar 1956 |
From Allan Knight Chalmers |
| 14 Mar 1956 |
From Howard Thurman |
| 15 Mar 1956 |
To Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 16 Mar 1956 |
To Howard Thurman |
| 16 Mar 1956 |
From Homer Alexander Jack |
| 18 Mar 1956 |
From Thelma Austin Rice |
| 19 Mar 1956 |
To W. E. B. Du Bois |
| 21 Mar 1956 |
From St. Clair Drake |
| 21 Mar 1956 |
From William Stuart Nelson |
| 22 Mar 1956 |
Testimony in State of Alabama v. M. L. King, Jr. |
| 22 Mar 1956 |
Judgment and Sentence of the Court, State of Alabama v. M. L. King, Jr. (facsimile) |
| 22 Mar 1956 |
Reactions to Conviction |
| 22 Mar 1956 |
Address to MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church |
| 22 Mar 1956 |
From Frank L. Stanley |
| 23 Mar 1956 |
Interview by Joe Azbell |
| 23 Mar 1956 |
From Samuel DuBois Cook |
| 23 Mar 1956 |
From William H. Gray, Jr. |
| 23 Mar 1956 |
From Norman Thomas |
| 29 Mar 1956 |
“When Peace Becomes Obnoxious,” Sermon Delivered on 18 March 1956 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 31 Mar 1956 |
“Quotable Quotes from Rev. King” |
| 2 Apr 1956 |
From Worth Littlejohn Barbour |
| 2 Apr 1956 |
From Richard Bartlett Gregg |
| 12 Apr 1956 |
From James H. Davis |
| 13 Apr 1956 |
From Glenn E. Smiley |
| 14 Apr 1956 |
From Jewelle Taylor |
| 19 Apr 1956 |
From A. Philip Randolph |
| 20 Apr 1956 |
From Charles C. Diggs, Jr. |
| 23 Apr 1956 |
From Dorothy Canfield Fisher |
| 23 Apr 1956 |
From James P. Coleman |
| 24 Apr 1956 |
To James P. Coleman |
| 24 Apr 1956 |
To Benjamin Elijah Mays |
| 24 Apr 1956 |
To Wayne D. McMurray |
| 25 Apr 1956 |
To William Peters |
| 25 Apr 1956 |
From Harris Wofford |
| 25 Apr 1956 |
From Percival Leroy Prattis |
| 26 Apr 1956 |
From Jeanne Martin Brayboy |
| 26 Apr 1956 |
To William E. Newgent |
| 26 Apr 1956 |
Address to MIA Mass Meeting at Day Street Baptist Church |
| 29 Apr 1956 |
From J. Martin England |
| 29 Apr 1956 |
From Hazel E. Foster |
| 30 Apr 1956 |
From Vivian C. Mason |
| Apr 1956 |
“Our Struggle’’ |
| May 1956 |
To Jewelle Taylor |
| 1 May 1956 |
From Earl E. Nance |
| 1 May 1956 |
To Roy Wilkins |
| 1 May 1956 |
To Richard Bartlett Gregg |
| 1 May 1956 |
To Percival Leroy Prattis |
| 2 May 1956 |
From Sadie Bradford |
| 6 May 1956 |
To Benjamin F. McLaurin |
| 7 May 1956 |
From A. Philip Randolph |
| 8 May 1956 |
To William Robert Miller |
| 8 May 1956 |
To Jesse Hill, Jr. |
| 8 May 1956 |
To Shelby Rooks |
| 9 May 1956 |
From Ernest C. Dillard |
| 10 May 1956 |
To A. Philip Randolph |
| 10 May 1956 |
To Harris Wofford |
| 11 May 1956 |
From Henri Varin de la Bruneliere |
| 17 May 1956 |
From Charles S. Johnson |
| 17 May 1956 |
“The Death of Evil upon the Seashore,” Sermon Delivered at the Service of Prayer and Thanksgiving, Cathedral of St. John the Divine |
| 17 May 1956 |
Announcement for Speech at Service of Prayer and Thanksgiving, Cathedral of St. John the Divine (facsimile) |
| 18 May 1956 |
From William Robert Miller |
| 18 May 1956 |
“Mother’s Day in Montgomery,” by Almena Lomax |
| 20 May 1956 |
From Richard Bartlett Gregg |
| 22 May 1956 |
To James E. Huger |
| 23 May 1956 |
To Hobson R. Reynolds |
| 24 May 1956 |
“Recommendations to MIA Executive Board” |
| 24 May 1956 |
To Lillian Eugenia Smith |
| 24 May 1956 |
From Myles Horton |
| 29 May 1956 |
Martin Luther King, Sr., to Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 31 May 1956 |
To E. T. Sandberg |
| May 1956 |
“Walk for Freedom” |
| June 1956 |
“The ‘New Negro’ of the South: Behind the Montgomery Story" |
| 1 June 1956 |
To Arthur R. James |
| 1 June 1956 |
From James Peck |
| 1 June 1956 |
From J. Raymond Henderson |
| 4 June 1956 |
To Ross Allen Weston |
| 4 June 1956 |
To George Lawrence |
| 4 June 1956 |
To William J. Faulkner |
| 4 June 1956 |
To Myles Horton |
| 4 June 1956 |
From Helen M. Hiller |
| 5 June 1956 |
To Charles E. Batten |
| 13 June 1956 |
From Archie L. Weaver |
| 15 June 1956 |
From George Lawrence |
| 19 June 1956 |
To Jimmy and Ellen Hawley |
| 20 June 1956 |
To Annemarie Schader |
| 27 June 1956 |
“The Montgomery Story,” Address Delivered at the Forty-seventh Annual NAACP Convention |
| 3 July 1956 |
To W. T. Handy, Jr. |
| 5 July 1956 |
To Glenn E. Smiley |
| 5 July 1956 |
To Almena Lomax |
| 5 July 1956 |
To John Oliver Killens |
| 6 July 1956 |
To Helen M. Hiller |
| 10 July 1956 |
To A. J. Muste |
| 10 July 1956 |
To Lovie M. Rainbow |
| 10 July 1956 |
To Homer Greene |
| 10 July 1956 |
To J. Raymond Henderson |
| 12 July 1956 |
From John Patterson |
| 18 July 1956 |
"From the Pastor's Desk" |
| 23 July 1956 |
“Non-Aggression Procedures to Interracial Harmony,” Address Delivered at the American Baptist Assembly and American Home Mission Agencies Conference |
| 30 July 1956 |
From Septima Poinsette Clark |
| 31 July 1956 |
From Medgar Wiley Evers |
| 1 Aug 1956 |
To W. H. Jernagin |
| 1 Aug 1956 |
To Rae Brandstein |
| 1 Aug 1956 |
To Clair M. Cook |
| 1 Aug 1956 |
From E. S. Hope |
| 11 Aug 1956 |
Testimony to the Democratic National Convention, Committee on Platform and Resolutions |
1956
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“The Birth of a New Age,” Address Delivered on 11 August 1956 at the Fiftieth Anniversary of Alpha Phi Alpha in Buffalo |
| 15 Aug 1956 |
From Ernest Morgan |
| 16 Aug 1956 |
To O. Clay Maxwell, Sr. |
| 16 Aug 1956 |
To Septima Poinsette Clark |
| 20 Aug 1956 |
To Homer Alexander Jack |
| 21 Aug 1956 |
To Marian and Nelson Fuson |
| 21 Aug 1956 |
To Joffre Stewart |
| 21 Aug 1956 |
To Glenn E. Smiley |
| 24 Aug 1956 |
To Warren J. Bunn |
| 27 Aug 1956 |
To Ernest Morgan |
| 27 Aug 1956 |
From W. H. Jernagin |
| 27 Aug 1956 |
To Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 28 Aug 1956 |
From Cecil A. Thomas |
| 28 Aug 1956 |
From Nannie H. Burroughs |
| 29 Aug 1956 |
From Kivie Kaplan |
| 30 Aug 1956 |
From L. Harold DeWolf |
| 7 Sept 1956 |
From Warren Olney III |
| 8 Sept 1956 |
From C. W. Kelly |
| 14 Sept 1956 |
To L. M. Terrill |
| 17 Sept 1956 |
To Warren Olney III |
| 18 Sept 1956 |
Minutes of MIA Executive Board Meeting, by W. J. Powell |
| 18 Sept 1956 |
To Nannie H. Burroughs |
| 18 Sept 1956 |
To William Cooper Cumming |
18 Sept 1956
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To Vernon Johns |
| 19 Sept 1956 |
To Sally Canada |
| 19 Sept 1956 |
To Manuel D. Talley |
| 19 Sept 1956 |
To Lafayette Dudley |
| 20 Sept 1956 |
To Bayard Rustin |
| 24 Sept 1956 |
To Wilbert J. Johnson |
| 25 Sept 1956 |
From Harold Edward Pinkston |
| 25 Sept 1956 |
From Samuel S. Thomas |
| 26 Sept 1956 |
From Bayard Rustin |
| 28 Sept 1956 |
From Alma John |
| 1 Oct 1956 |
To Viva O. Sloan |
| 2 Oct 1956 |
To Cecil A. Thomas |
| 2 Oct 1956 |
From Warren Olney III |
| 3 Oct 1956 |
To Walter George Muelder |
| 3 Oct 1956 |
Robert L. Cannon to Alfred Hassler and Glenn E. Smiley |
| 3 Oct 1956 |
To Sylvester S. Robinson |
| 3 Oct 1956 |
From Douglas E. Moore |
| 9 Oct 1956 |
To Samuel S. Thomas |
| 11 Oct 1956 |
To Charles S. Johnson |
| 15 Oct 1956 |
To Raleigh A. Bryant |
| 17 Oct 1956 |
From Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 21 Oct 1956 |
From T. J. Jemison |
| 23 Oct 1956 |
To L. Harold DeWolf |
| 23 Oct 1956 |
From C. Kenzie Steele |
| 25 Oct 1956 |
From Maxwell M. Rabb |
| 26 Oct 1956 |
From B. J. Simms |
| 29 Oct 1956 |
From Walter R. McCall |
| 30 Oct 1956 |
To George Lawrence |
| 30 Oct 1956 |
To Earl Kennedy |
| 31 Oct 1956 |
Annual Report, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 31 Oct 1956 |
To Alfred Daniel King |
| 31 Oct 1956 |
To Benjamin F. McLaurin |
| 4 Nov 1956 |
“Paul’s Letter to American Christians,” Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 5 Nov 1956 |
To Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 8 Nov 1956 |
To Richard H. Dixon |
| 9 Nov 1956 |
From Julius Waties Waring |
| 9 Nov 1956 |
From L. Harold DeWolf |
| 14 Nov 1956 |
Address to MIA Mass Meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church |
| 14 Nov 1956 |
From Benjamin Elijah Mays |
| 14 Nov 1956 |
From John M. Swomley |
| 14 Nov 1956 |
To Ella J. Baker |
| 14 Nov 1956 |
From Ella J. Baker |
| 20 Nov 1956 |
From Glenn E. Smiley |
| 21 Nov 1956 |
From Ralph J. Bunche |
| 23 Nov 1956 |
To Ruth Bunche and Aminda Wilkins |
| 24 Nov 1956 |
To Albert S. Bigelow |
| 25 Nov 1956 |
From William Lusk, Marjorie Gettleman, Naomi Friedman, and Sheila Navarick |
| 27 Nov 1956 |
From Michael J. Quill and Matthew Guinan |
| 27 Nov 1956 |
From Roland E. Haynes |
| 27 Nov 1956 |
To Supporter |
| 28 Nov 1956 |
From Gil B. Lloyd |
| 28 Nov 1956 |
To Lottie Mae Pugh |
| Dec 1956 |
“We Are Still Walking” |
| 3 Dec 1956 |
“Facing the Challenge of a New Age,” Address Delivered at the First Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change |
| 5 Dec 1956 |
To Charles Walker |
| 5 Dec 1956 |
From Charles Walker |
| 5 Dec 1956 |
To Dorothy S. Bowles |
| 10 Dec 1956 |
Sworn Deposition on Station Incident |
| 10 Dec 1956 |
From L. Harold DeWolf |
| 10 Dec 1956 |
From Robert E. Hughes |
| 10 Dec 1956 |
From Joel Lawrence King |
| 11 Dec 1956 |
To Medgar Wiley Evers |
| 15 Dec 1956 |
“Desegregation and the Future,” Address Delivered at the Annual Luncheon of the National Committee for Rural Schools |
| 17 Dec 1956 |
To Roland E. Haynes |
| 17 Dec 1956 |
To Benjamin Elijah Mays |
| 19 Dec 1956 |
“Integrated Bus Suggestions” |
| 19 Dec 1956 |
To W. A. Gayle |
| 19 Dec 1956 |
From William Holmes Borders |
| 20 Dec 1956 |
Statement on Ending the Bus Boycott |
| 20 Dec 1956 |
To Wyatt Tee Walker |
| 20 Dec 1956 |
To Eugene Walton |
| 20 Dec 1956 |
To Daniel G. Hill |
| 23 Dec 1956 |
From Bayard Rustin |
| 24 Dec 1956 |
“New Fields Await Negroes, King Tells Mass Meeting" |
| 26 Dec 1956 |
To Fred L. Shuttlesworth |
| 27 Dec 1956 |
From Homer Alexander Jack |
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