Bibliography on Gandhi and Martin Luther
King, Jr.
Contributed
by Timothy Dobe, Grinnell College
Branch,
Tayler. Parting the Waters (Simon and Schuster, 1989).
Includes
information on MLK, but also on earlier African-American interactions with
Gandhi.
Carson,
Clayborn, Tenisha Armstrong, et al, eds. `The Threshold of a New Decade,`
Vol. 5 of the MLK Papers(University of California Press, 1992), pp.
130-156.
Writings of
Jim Bristol, the King´s AFSC host while in Delhi andof the papers and
pieces related to the Kings 1959 visit to India.
Dalton,
Dennis. Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action;
Contains a
chapter comparing Gandhi, MLK and Malcolm X; interestingly highlights the
parallels between Gandhi and the latter as well as Gandhi’s influence on
the former.
Kapur,
Sudarshan. Raising up a Prophet: The African-American Encounter with
Gandhi (Beacon Press, 1992).
Traces the
relationships between Gandhi and African-Americans in the first half of
the last century. Kapur makes the argument that the African-American
community over the decades before King, were already preparing the ground
for raising a Gandhi-like prophet among their own, for decades before King
took the stage in the 1950s.
Other
Items of Interest
MLK’s
tribute to Gandhi in 1958 (published simultaneously in the Hindustan Times
and Peace News) on https://mail.grinnell.edu/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/node/229
A
forthcoming slide-show commentary work by Purushottama Bilmoria on the
Gandhian impact on African American Civil Rights Movement and on MLK. It
is intended as teaching supplement and will be posted on a couple of
websites shortly, such as: http://www.jmu.edu/gandhicenter.
Revised: October 12, 2007
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