This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/10/2020
[CIVIL RIGHTS] KING JR., Martin Luther (1929–1968). Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?, [association copy inscribed]. New York/Evanston/London: Harper & Row, [1967]. 8vo. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING. Publisher’s black cloth backed boards titled in gilt, original unclipped dust jacket (small closed tear to front jacket panel). INSCRIBED by Reverend Fredrick Douglass Kirkpatrick, an associate of MLK Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and founder of the Deacons for Defense. A FINE COPY. Fredrick Douglass Kirkpatrick was a civil rights activist, minister, and musician, writing such songs as “Everybody’s Got a Right to Live” that was described as “an anthem of the civil rights movement”. Kirkpatrick later went on to create the Deacons for Defense and Justice group during a time of continued violence from KKK members, the white community and the struggling oppression under Jim Crow laws in Southern states.