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About the Morehouse
King Collection |
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Notable Items |
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Items of note
within the Morehouse King Collection include:
Draft of Dr. King’s Address “Normalcy
– Never Again” (better known as the “I
Have a Dream” speech), March on Washington for Jobs
and Freedom, Lincoln Memorial (1963 August 28) – Typescript
version with an autograph passage by Dr. King on the verso
of the fourth page
Draft of Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
(1964 December 10) – Handwritten on five pages of
yellow, legal paper; the collection also includes drafts
of his Lecture to the Nobel Committee and speech at the
Atlanta dinner honoring his receipt of the prize
 Sermon
Notes for “Eulogy for Carol Denise McNair, Addie Mae
Collins and Cynthia Diane Wesley” (died in the Sixteenth
Street Baptist Church bombing) (ca. 1963 September) –
Handwritten notes for eulogy on the back cover of Here
and Beyond the Sunset, a volume of poetry collected
by Nannie H. Burroughs
Published Copy “Letter from Birmingham
City Jail” (ca. 1963 April 14) – Handwritten
revisions to part of the letter for second printing
Dissertation Draft – Partial typescript draft with
annotations of “A Comparison of God in the Thinking
of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman” (1953-1955),
written to satisfy the requirements of his doctoral program
at Boston University
Typescript Draft of Strength to Love (ca. 1962-1963)
– Complete manuscript draft with editorial markings,
annotations, passages of text inserted into the document
with tape
Galley Proofs of Why We Can’t Wait (1964)
– Manuscript with editorial markings and annotations
by more than one person
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