Tejai Beulah Ph. D., is currently an Assistant Professor of History, Ethics, and Black Church and African Diaspora Studies at Methodist Theological School in Ohio where she teaches courses in Church History and African American religious and ethical studies. Her teaching and research interests include: African American religious intellectuals, gender and sexuality in U.S. history, African American music and social movements, and race/ethnicity studies. She is currently at work on a monograph titled, Soul Salvation, Social Liberation: Race and Evangelical Christianity in the Black Power Era, 1968-1979.
KING’S WRITINGS
Stride Towards Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)
Strength to Love (1963)
Why We Can’t Wait (1964)
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? (1968)
The Trumpet of Conscience (1968)
KING'S SPEECHES
“I Have a Dream Speech” March on Washington, August 28, 1963 https://www.npr.org/2010/01/18/122701268/i-have-a-dream-speech-in-its-entirety
“A Knock at Midnight “ June 11, 1967
https://www.learnoutloud.com/Free-Audio-Video/History/Speeches/A-Knock-at-Midnight/90595
Martin Luther King, Jr. “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” Riverside Church, New York, New York, April 4, 1967.
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/beyond-vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr. “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.” Mason Temple, Memphis, Tennessee, April 3, 1968.
https://www.afscme.org/about/history/mlk/mountaintop.
COLLECTED WRITINGS SPEECHES AND PAPERS
James Melvin Washington, ed., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. (1986)
Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard, eds. A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr(2001)
The Papers of Martin Luther King Jr, Volumes 1-7
https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/about-papers-project
Cornel West, The Radical King(2015)
KING’S EARLY BIOGRAPHIES
L.D. Reddick. Crusader Without Violence: The First Biography of Martin Luther King Jr (1959)
Lerone Bennett. What Manner of Man: A Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr (1968)
David Levering Lewis. King: A Biography (1970)
KING’S THEOLOGICAL ETHICS
Lewis Baldwin. There Is a Balm in Gilead: The Cultural Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. Minneapolis (1991)
___________. The Voice of Conscience: The Church in the Mind of Martin Luther King, Jr (2010)
Rufus Burrow, Jr. God and Human Dignity: The Personalism, Theology, and Ethics of Martin Luther King, Jr (2006)
_______________. Extremist for Love: Martin Luther King, Jr., Man of Ideas and Nonviolent Social Action ( 2014)
KING IN CONVERSATION WITH MALCOLM X
James Cone. Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare. (2012)
Joseph Peniel. The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr (2020)
KING, SEX, AND GENDER
Danielle L. McGuire. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—a New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power (2010)
Traci C. West. “Gendered Legacies of Martin Luther King’s Leadership.” Theology Today 65 (2008): 41-56.
KING ESSAY COLLECTIONS
Vincent Harding. Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero. (2013)
Tommie Shelby and Brandon M. Terry. To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2018)