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拍品專文
First edition signed and inscribed by MLK for union workers.
King has written on the front free endpaper: "To my Friends of ILGWU, In appreciation for your generous support. Martin Luther King, Jr."
In June of 1967 when Dr. King's last book was published, he was actively strengthening his alliances with unions—meeting with labor leaders, supporting organizing drives, and arguing that the Poor People’s Campaign would depend on a united front of workers and civil rights activists. Dr. King and the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) had a long relationship of mutual support.
King's last book shares its title with his final address as President of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered on 16 August 1967. King addresses recent urban race riots, white backlash, and the assassination of James Meredith one year prior, but looks beyond the struggle in the United States to what he termed the world house. "We have inherited a large house," King writes, "a great 'world house' in which we have to live together—black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu." He continues by proclaiming, only months before his own assassination, that "oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever," for "the yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."
King has written on the front free endpaper: "To my Friends of ILGWU, In appreciation for your generous support. Martin Luther King, Jr."
In June of 1967 when Dr. King's last book was published, he was actively strengthening his alliances with unions—meeting with labor leaders, supporting organizing drives, and arguing that the Poor People’s Campaign would depend on a united front of workers and civil rights activists. Dr. King and the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union (ILGWU) had a long relationship of mutual support.
King's last book shares its title with his final address as President of Southern Christian Leadership Conference, delivered on 16 August 1967. King addresses recent urban race riots, white backlash, and the assassination of James Meredith one year prior, but looks beyond the struggle in the United States to what he termed the world house. "We have inherited a large house," King writes, "a great 'world house' in which we have to live together—black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu." He continues by proclaiming, only months before his own assassination, that "oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever," for "the yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."