Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Lot 229
28.01.2025 10:00UTC -05:00
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Lieu de l'événementEtats-Unis, New York
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Lot 229 | Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
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$ 4 000 – 6 000
KING, Martin Luther, Jr. (1929-1968). Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Evanston and London: Harper & Row, 1967.

First edition signed and inscribed by MLK, in pristine dust-jacket. King's last book is partly based upon, and draws its title from, 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." The present copy has been inscribed by King to Steven Rockefeller: "With appreciation for your great support and your genuine humanitarian concern."

Octavo (210 x 140mm). Half-title. Original black cloth over yellow boards. Pictorial dust-jacket printed in orange, gray, and red with Steve Schapiro's photograph of the Selma March to front cover and photograph of King by Bob Fitch on the rear (neat repair on fold of dust-jacket's lower flap); custom quarter blue morocco box. Provenance: Steven Rockefeller (presentation inscription).
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