Advocate of the Social Gospel Volume VI

This groundbreaking work provides a unique look a King's never-before-published early sermons, drawn from a private file of materials King kept in his study and used to prepare his homilies. In 1997, Corretta Scott King granted the King Papers senior editorial staff permission to examine the papers stored in the basement of the family home. A battered cardboard box held a trove of sermon notes, outlines and full sermon texts from the years up to and including King's involvement in the Montgomery bus boycott in 1956, a period for which few of King's religious writings had been available previously.