Volume 3: Birth of a New Age,

December 1955-December 1956

Table of Contents

Chronology of Events: December 1955-December 1956

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 Montgemery 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 Frist 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 Donnald 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, Jr., 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 Frb 1956

From Charles R. Laerence

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 Hlt Street Baptist Church, by Donald T. Ferron

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

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

5 Mar 1956

From Leonard G. Carr

5 Mar 1956

From Eunice Guy

6 Mar 1956

From Wiliam 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

To 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

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

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 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. Phillip Randolph

20 Apr 1956

From Charles C. Diggs, Jr.

23 Apr 1956

From James P. Coleman

24 Apr 1956

To Benjamin Eligah Mays

24 Apr 1956

To Wayne D. McMurray

25 Apr 1956

To William Peters

25Apr 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

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

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 'Net Negro' of the South: Behind the Montgomer Story"

1 June 1956

To Arthur R. James

1 June 1956

From James Peck

1 June 1956

To J. Raymond Henderson

4 June 1956

To Ross Allen Weston

4 June 1956

To Georger 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 Lwrence

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

10July 1956

To A. J. Muste

10 July 1956

To Lovie M. Rainbow

10 July 1956

To Hmer 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 Democratice National Convention, Committee on Platform and Resolutions

1956

"The Birth of a New Age," Address Delviered on 11 August 1956 at the Fiftieth Anniversary of Alha 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

27Aug 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

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. Calnnon 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. Bunch

23 Nov 1956

To Ruth Bunche and Aminda Wilkins

24 Nov 1956

To Albert S. Bigelow

25 Nov 1956

From William Lusk, Majorie Gettleman, Naomi Firedman, and Sheila Navarick

27 Nov 1956

From Michael J. Quill and Matthew Guinan

27 Nov 1956

From Ronald E. Haynes

27 Nov 1956

To Supporter

28 Nov 1956

From Gil B. Lloyd

28 Nov 1956

To Lottie Shaw 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