| Date | Title |
| 1 Jan 1957 |
“Facing the Challenge of a New Age,” Address Delivered at NAACP Emancipation Day Rally |
| 4 Jan 1957 |
To L. Harold DeWolf |
| 4 Jan 1957 |
From A. Philip Randolph |
| 7 Jan 1957 |
To A. Philip Randolph |
| 7 Jan 1957 |
To Gil B. Lloyd |
| 7 Jan 1957 |
Montgomery Improvement Association Press Release, Bus Protesters Call Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration |
| 10 Jan 1957 |
To Robert Johnson |
| 11 Jan 1957 |
From Maxwell M. Rabb |
| 11 Jan 1957 |
To Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 11 Jan 1957 |
To Richard M. Nixon |
| 11 Jan 1957 |
“A Statement to the South and the Nation,” Issued by the Southern Negro Leaders Conference on Transportation and Nonviolent Integration |
| 11 Jan 1957 |
From J. Pius Barbour |
| 13 Jan 1957 |
The Ways of God in the Midst of Glaring Evil, Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 14 Jan 1957 |
Outline, Address to MIA Mass Meeting at Bethel Baptist Church |
| 18 Jan 1957 |
To Alfred Hassler |
| 22 Jan 1957 |
From Kwame Nkrumah |
| 28 Jan 1957 |
To Fannie E. Scott |
| 28 Jan 1957 |
"King Says Vision Told Him to Lead Integration Forces" |
| 31 Jan 1957 |
To Dorothy M. Steere |
| 1 Feb 1957 |
Maude L. Ballou to Malcolm X |
| 6 Feb 1957 |
“Nonviolence and Racial Justice” |
| 8 Feb 1957 |
To Clarence L. Jordan |
| 10 Feb 1957 |
"For All . . . A Non-Segregated Society," A Message for Race Relations Sunday |
| 10 Feb 1957 |
Interview by Richard D. Heffner for “The Open Mind” |
| 14 Feb 1957 |
To Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 14 Feb 1957 |
To Richard M. Nixon |
| 14 Feb 1957 |
From Walter R. McCall |
| 14 Feb 1957 |
From J. E. Nesbitt |
| 15 Feb 1957 |
From John Wesley Dobbs |
| 18 Feb 1957 |
To A. A. Banks, Jr. |
| 25 Feb 1957 |
From William Robert Miller |
| 26 Feb 1957 |
To Ralph Abernathy |
| 6 Mar 1957 |
Interview by Etta Moten Barnett |
| 13 Mar 1957 |
From Sherman Adams |
| 20 Mar 1957 |
Telegram to T. H. Randall from Rome on 14 March 1957 |
| 5 Apr 1957 |
From C. L. R. James |
| 5 Apr 1957 |
“Call to a Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom” |
| 6 Apr 1957 |
From William Holmes Borders |
| 7 Apr 1957 |
“The Birth of a New Nation,” Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 10 Apr 1957 |
“A Realistic Look at the Question of Progress in the Area of Race Relations,” Address Delivered at St. Louis Freedom Rally |
| 12 Apr 1957 |
From Robert E. Hughes |
| 23 Apr 1957 |
To William Robert Miller |
| 24 Apr 1957 |
To F. Thomas Trotter |
| 25 Apr 1957 |
To Lawrence M. Byrd |
| 1957 |
“The Role of the Church in Facing the Nation’s Chief Moral Dilemma,” Address Delivered on 25 April 1957 at the Conference on Christian Faith and Human Relations in Nashville |
| 29 Apr 1957 |
To Galal Kernahan |
| 30 Apr 1957 |
To C. L. R. James |
| 1 May 1957 |
To Charles E. Chamberlain |
| 2 May 1957 |
To Alexander L. Burns |
| 7 May 1957 |
To Frank J. Gregory |
| 10 May 1957 |
From Bayard Rustin |
| 15 May 1957 |
To Altona Trent Johns |
| 15 May 1957 |
To June Shagaloff |
| 15 May 1957 |
To Richard M. Nixon |
| 16 May 1957 |
To Bernard Shanley |
| 16 May 1957 |
To M. C. Williams |
| 17 May 1957 |
“Give Us the Ballot,” Address Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom |
| 21 May 1957 |
From Irene Dobbs Jackson |
| 3 June 1957 |
From E. D. Nixon |
| 3 June 1957 |
To Roy Wilkins |
| 12 June 1957 |
To Edward H. Page |
| 12 June 1957 |
To Cynthia Bowles |
| 13 June 1957 |
Statement on Meeting with Richard M. Nixon |
| 15 June 1957 |
From Richard M. Nixon |
| 17 June 1957 |
To Benjamin Elijah Mays |
| 22 June 1957 |
From George D. Kelsey |
| 28 June 1957 |
“Remarks in Acceptance of the Forty-second Spingarn Medal at the Forty-eighth Annual NAACP Convention” |
| 5 July 1957 |
To Mordecai W. Johnson |
| 16 July 1957 |
To Ramona Garrett |
| 18 July 1957 |
From Charles G. Gomillion |
| 18 July 1957 |
Invocation Delivered at Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Crusade |
| 25 July 1957 |
From Charles O. Akuamoa |
| 27 July 1957 |
From Fred L. Shuttlesworth |
| 5 Aug 1957 |
To Leila M. Barlow |
| 6 Aug 1957 |
To Charles O. Akuamoa |
| 7 Aug 1957 |
To Amy Spingarn |
| 7 Aug 1957 |
From A. Philip Randolph |
| 9 Aug 1957 |
To Conrad J. Lynn |
| 11 Aug 1957 |
“Conquering Self-Centeredness,” Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 20 Aug 1957 |
From Medgar Wiley Evers |
| 23 Aug 1957 |
To Roy Wilkins |
| 23 Aug 1957 |
From Rosa Parks |
| 28 Aug 1957 |
To Janet Childs Harris |
| 30 Aug 1957 |
To Richard M. Nixon |
| 31 Aug 1957 |
To Billy Graham |
| 31 Aug 1957 |
To T. Y. Rogers |
| Sept 1957 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 2 Sept 1957 |
"A Look to the Future,” Address Delivered at Highlander Folk School’s Twenty-fifth Anniversary Meeting |
| 17 Sept 1957 |
From Richard M. Nixon |
| 25 Sept 1957 |
To Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 26 Sept 1957 |
“Dr. King Asks Non-Violence In Little Rock School Crisis” |
| Oct 1957 |
"Advice for Living” |
| 3 Oct 1957 |
From J. Pius Barbour |
| 7 Oct 1957 |
From Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 16 Oct 1957 |
From Harris Wofford |
| 18 Oct 1957 |
From Joan Daves |
| 31 Oct 1957 |
Annual Report, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Presented on 23 October 1957 |
| 24 Oct 1957 |
To Glenn E. Smiley |
| 27 Oct 1957 |
Interview by Martin Agronsky for “Look Here" |
| 28 Oct 1957 |
To Alfred Hassler |
| 28 Oct 1957 |
To Chester Bowles |
| Nov 1957 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 5 Nov 1957 |
Press Release, Announcement of the Crusade for Citizenship |
| 5 Nov 1957 |
To Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 6 Nov 1957 |
“The Things That Are God’s,’’ Sermon Delivered on 27 October 1957 at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 8 Nov 1957 |
To Chester Bowles |
| 13 Nov 1957 |
To Marie F. Rodell |
| 17 Nov 1957 |
“Loving Your Enemies,” Sermon Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 18 Nov 1957 |
From Oliver Tambo |
| Dec 1957 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 5 Dec 1957 |
“Some Things We Must Do,” Address Delivered at the Second Annual Institute on Nonviolence and Social Change at Holt Street Baptist Church |
| 20 Dec 1957 |
To Archibald James Carey |
| 20 Dec 1957 |
From John Henrik Clarke |
| 23 Dec 1957 |
To Marie F. Rodell |
| 31 Dec 1957 |
From Ralph J. Bunche |
| Jan 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 14 Jan 1958 |
From Roy Wilkins |
| 24 Jan 1958 |
From Stanley D. Levison |
| 27 Jan 1958 |
From Paul Simon |
| 30 Jan 1958 |
“His Influence Speaks To World Conscience” |
| Feb 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 4 Feb 1958 |
To the Southern Christian Leadership Conference |
| 6 Feb 1958 |
To Thurgood Marshall |
| 7 Feb 1958 |
To Paul Simon |
| 10 Feb 1958 |
“Remarks for Negro Press Week” |
| 11 Feb 1958 |
Interview at Bennett College |
| 12 Feb 1958 |
Address Delivered at a Meeting Launching the SCLC Crusade for Citizenship at Greater Bethel AME Church |
| 19 Feb 1958 |
To Eleanor Roosevelt |
| 26 Feb 1958 |
From Harry Belafonte |
| Mar 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 3 Mar 1958 |
From Alfred Daniel King |
| 6 Mar 1958 |
To E. D. Nixon |
| 8 Mar 1958 |
To Nannie Helen Burroughs |
| 9 Mar 1958 |
From Norman Cousins and Clarence Pickett |
| 10 Mar 1958 |
To Bayard Rustin |
| 13 Mar 1958 |
To Roy Wilkins |
| 17 Mar 1958 |
To Arthur L. Johnson |
| 19 Mar 1958 |
To Douglas E. Moore |
| 19 Mar 1958 |
From Elijah Muhammad |
| 21 Mar 1958 |
From Hermine I. Popper |
| 25 Mar 1958 |
To Charles C. Diggs, Jr. |
| 25 Mar 1958 |
To Alberta Williams King |
| 31 Mar 1958 |
From Martin Luther King, Sr. |
| 31 Mar 1958 |
To George D. Kelsey |
| Apr 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 4 Apr 1958 |
From George D. Kelsey |
| 4 Apr 1958 |
Telephone Conversation with Rex Thomas |
| 6 Apr 1958 |
“Statement Delivered at the Prayer Pilgrimage Protesting the Electrocution of Jeremiah Reeves” |
| 9 Apr 1958 |
To Elijah Muhammad |
| 18 Apr 1958 |
From Ella J. Baker |
| May 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| May 1958 |
Foreword to A First Step Toward School Integration |
| 5 May 1958 |
From Melvin Arnold |
| 14 May 1958 |
Address Delivered at the National Biennial Convention of the American Jewish Congress |
| 24 May 1958 |
To Bradford P. Laws |
| 27 May 1958 |
From Hilda S. Proctor |
| 28 May 1958 |
From Ralph Abernathy |
| 29 May 1958 |
To Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 29 May 1958 |
To Aaron E. Henry |
| June 1958 |
‘Advice for Living” |
| 7 June 1958 |
To James P. Coleman |
| 10 June 1958 |
To Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| 16 June 1958 |
To Ralph Abernathy |
| 20 June 1958 |
From Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. |
| 21 June 1958 |
To Whitney M. Young |
| 23 June 1958 |
“A Statement to the President of the United States” |
| 23 June 1958 |
To Daniel G. Hill |
| 25 June 1958 |
Interview by Mike Wallace |
| 26 June 1958 |
From John Lee Tilley |
| July 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 1 July 1958 |
To Daisy Bates |
| 7 July 1958 |
To Thomas Kilgore |
| 7 July 1958 |
To Katie E. Whickam |
| 9 July 1958 |
To Walter R. McCall |
| 15 July 1958 |
To James W. Morgan |
| 18 July 1958 |
To A. Philip Randolph |
| 18 July 1958 |
To O. Clay Maxwell |
| 18 July 1958 |
To Thomas C. Hennings |
| 23 July 1958 |
To Billy Graham |
| 28 July 1958 |
From Grady Wilson |
| Aug 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 5 Aug 1958 |
To Dwight E. Loder |
| 7 Aug 1958 |
To J. H. Jackson |
| 8 Aug 1958 |
To J. Pius Barbour |
| 11 Aug 1958 |
To Lillian Eugenia Smith |
| 14 Aug 1958 |
From Lillian Eugenia Smith |
| 15 Aug 1958 |
To L. H. Holmes |
| 18 Aug 1958 |
To Rae Brandstein |
| Sept 1958 |
"Advice for Living" |
| 1 Sept 1958 |
"My Pilgrimage to Nonviolence" |
| 2 Sept 1958 |
To Earl Mazo |
| 2 Sept 1958 |
To Gardner C. Taylor |
| 4 Sept 1958 |
From Benjamin J. Davis |
| 4 Sept 1958 |
From John Lewis |
| 5 Sept 1958 |
Statement to Eugene Loe |
| 5 Sept 1958 |
From Harris Wofford |
| 9 Sept 1958 |
From E. D. Nixon |
| 9 Sept 1958 |
From Kaka Kalelkar and Sarojini Nanavati |
| 16 Sept 1958 |
To E. D. Nixon |
| 17 Sept 1958 |
To Aaron E. Henry |
| 17 Sept 1958 |
From J. Raymond Henderson |
| 21 Sept 1958 |
From Dexter Avenue Baptist Church |
| 23 Sept 1958 |
From A. J. Muste |
| 23 Sept 1958 |
From Benjamin Elijah Mays |
| 30 Sept 1958 |
Statement Issued from Harlem Hospital |
| Oct 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 6 Oct 1958 |
To the Montgomery Improvement Association |
| 10 Oct 1958 |
From R. D. and Effie Crockett |
| 13 Oct 1958 |
To William Berry Hartsfield |
| 13 Oct 1958 |
To Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 14 Oct 1958 |
From Anne Braden |
| 17 Oct 1958 |
From Rocco C. Siciliano |
| 17 Oct 1958 |
From George W. Davis |
| 24 Oct 1958 |
Statement Upon Return to Montgomery |
| 25 Oct 1958 |
Address at Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C., Delivered by Coretta Scott King |
| 25 Oct 1958 |
From Herbert W. Vilakazi |
| 28 Oct 1958 |
From Joachim Prinz |
| 29 Oct 1958 |
To Wyatt Tee Walker |
| 29 Oct 1958 |
To Eleanor Roosevelt |
| Nov 1958 |
"Advice for Living" |
| 3 Nov 1958 |
From James M.Lawson |
| 3 Nov 1958 |
From Stanley D. Levison |
| 5 Nov 1958 |
To Kenneth B. Keating |
| 8 Nov 1958 |
To A. Philip Randolph |
| 8 Nov 1958 |
To George W. Davis |
| 8 Nov 1958 |
To Georgia Elma Harkness |
| 10 Nov 1958 |
To Bayard Rustin |
| 11 Nov 1958 |
From Stewart Meacham |
| 13 Nov 1958 |
To Darrell Randall |
| 13 Nov 1958 |
From Dwight D. Eisenhower |
| 17 Nov 1958 |
From Harry Emerson Fosdick |
| 30 Nov 1958 |
Annual Report, Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Presented on 18 November 1958 |
| 19 Nov 1958 |
From J. Pius Barbour |
| Dec 1958 |
“Advice for Living” |
| 3 Dec 1958 |
To Brother in Christ |
| 4 Dec 1958 |
To Jerry Wurf |
| 15 Dec 1958 |
To Stanley D. Levison |
| 17 Dec 1958 |
To Royce Kershaw |
| 18 Dec 1958 |
To Richard Bartlett Gregg |
| 22 Dec 1958 |
To Hilda S. Proctor |
| 22 Dec 1958 |
From Alfred Hassler |
| 23 Dec 1958 |
To Gardner C. Taylor |
| 27 Dec 1958 |
From G. Ramachandran |
| 31 Dec 1958 |
From Hilda S. Proctor |