18. Andrew Young, author interview, Atlanta, October 12, 2012.
19. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 428.
CHAPTER 2: DETOUR
Martin Luther King Jr. at Stanford, “The Other America,” 1967, available at YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3H978KlR20.
1. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” National Cathedral, Washington, DC, March 31, 1968, in A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., ed. James M. Washington (New York: HarperOne, 1986), 272–73.
2. Ibid., 275.
3. Briefcase contents, Morehouse College: Martin Luther King Jr. Collection, Robert W. Woodruff Library, Atlanta University Center, Atlanta (hereafter cited as Woodruff Library).
4. Martin Luther King Jr., unpublished manuscript, October 14, 1966, 1–2, Woodruff Library.
5. Helen B. Shaffer, “Negroes in the North,” in Editorial Research Reports 1965, vol. II, 779–97 (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 1965), http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/cqresrre1965102700.
6. Martin Luther King Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (orig. pub. 1964; Boston: Beacon Press, 2010), 21.
7. Ibid., 107.
8. Martin Luther King Jr., “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence,” speech delivered April 4, 1967, at Riverside Church, New York City, Common Dreams, http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0115–13.htm.
9. Martin Luther King Jr., “Need to Go to Washington,” unpublished transcript of a news conference, Atlanta, January 16, 1968, 1–6, archives of King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Atlanta (hereafter King Center archives).
10. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 615.
11. King, “Remaining Awake,” 272–73.
12. Martin Luther King Jr., transcript of a speech, Waycross, Georgia, March 22, 1968, 3–6, King Center archives.
13. King schedule, Southern Christian Leadership Conference Records, William Rutherford Files, box 197, folder 9, item 3810, Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, Emory University, Atlanta.
14. Marion Logan interview by Paul Steckler, December 9, 1988, in Eyes on the Prize II Interviews, Blackside, Inc., Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection, http://digital.wustl.edu/e/eii/eiiweb/log5427.0673.097marianlogan.html.
CHAPTER 3: THE STRIKE
1. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 143.
2. Oates, Let the Trumpet Sound, 457.
3. Taylor Rogers, author interview, Memphis, October 12, 2006.
4. Samuel “Billy” Kyles, author interview, Memphis, April 13, 2007.
5. Ibid.
6. Gene Dattel, Cotton and Race in the Making of America: The Human Costs of Economic Power (Lanham, MD: Ivan R. Dee, 2009), 331.
7. Joe Warren, author interview, Memphis, October 12, 2006.
8. Ibid.
9. Rogers interview.
10. Warren interview.
11. Ibid.
12. Martin Luther King Jr., “Speech to Sanitation Workers,” transcript, Memphis, March 18, 1968, 2, King Center archives.
13. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 63.
14. T. O. Jones, interview transcripts, August 8, 1969 and January 30, 1970, folders 108–10, Sanitation Strike Archival Project, Special Collections Department, Ned R. McWherter Library, University of Memphis (hereafter SSAP).
15. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 32.
16. Warren interview.
17. Ibid.
18. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 38.
19. Rogers interview.
20. Larry Scroggs, “New Union Command Post Hints ‘We’re Here to Stay,’” Commercial Appeal, March 18, 1968.
21. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 375.
CHAPTER 4: AIRPORT ARRIVAL
Hampton Sides, Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin (New York: Doubleday, 2010), 122.
1. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 375.
2. “Re: Security and Surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,” Memphis police report by Inspector G. P. Tines, July 17, 1968, 2, Holloman Collection (hereafter Tines report).
3. James Lawson, author interview, Nashville, April 16, 2007.
4. Tines report, 4.
5. “King Challenges Court Restraint, Vows to March,” Commercial Appeal, April 4, 1968.
6. Abernathy, And the Walls Came Tumbling Down, 12.
7. Author’s recollection of comments heard while riding in a squad car during the summer of 1968.
8. Flip Schulke and Penelope O. McPhee, King Remembered (orig. pub., 1986; New York: W. W. Norton, 1989), 240–41.
9. Edward Estes Redditt, author interview, Somerville, Tennessee, October 12, 2006.
CHAPTER 5: THE INVITATION
Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” National Cathedral, Washington, DC, March 31, 1968, http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/documentsentry/doc_remaining_awake_through_a_great_revolution.1.html.
1. Samuel S. B. (Billy) Kyles, interview transcript, July 30, 1968, tape 280, 10, SSAP.
2. Kyles interview.
3. Rev. James M. Lawson Jr., interview transcript, July 8, 1970, tape 243, 8, SSAP.
4. Young interview.
5. Andrew Young, An Easy Burden: The Civil Rights Movement and the Transformation of America (New York: HarperCollins, 1996), 190.
6. Ibid.
7. Garrow, Bearing the Cross, 464.
8. Benjamin Hooks, author interview, Memphis, October 11, 2007.
9. “Young Criticizes Dr. King for Viet Statement,” Washington Post, September 12, 1965.
10. Young, Easy Burden, 434.
11. Cotton, If Your Back’s Not Bent, 209.
12. Young interview.
13. Ibid.
14. Ibid.
15. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 296.
16. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 256.
17. Kyles interview, SSAP, 18–19.
18. King, “Speech to Sanitation Workers,” 7.
19. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 259.
CHAPTER 6: THE MAYOR
Martin Luther King Jr., “Memphis Sanitation Workers Strike,” King Encyclopedia, http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_memphis_sanitation_workers_strike_1968/.
1. Young interview.
2. Lewis R. Donelson III, Lewie (Memphis: Rhodes College, 2012), 166–67.
3. Dowdy, A Brief History of Memphis, 27.
4. Frank L. McRae, author interview, Memphis, October 11, 2006.
5. Joseph Sweat, author interview, Nashville, April 16, 2007.
6. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 62.
7. Quoting an ad from the Memphis Appeal, December 2, 1846, in Paul R. Coppock, Memphis Memoirs (Memphis: Memphis State University Press, 1980), 98.
8. Ibid., 73–74.
9. Sweat interview.
10. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 206.
11. McRae interview.
12. King, “Speech to Sanitation Workers,” 4.
13. McRae interview.
14. Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can’t Wait (orig. pub. 1963; New York: Signet Classic, 2000), 122.
15. Sweat interview.
16. Lewis R. Donelson, author interview, Memphis, April 4, 2014.
17. Quoted in Frank Murtaugh and Marilyn Sadler, “The Lions in Winter: Ten Civil Rights Pioneers Take Us Back to the Dark Days of April 1968,” Memphis, April 8, 2008, 65.
18. Sweat interview.
19. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 20.
20. Ibid., 71.
21. Henry Loeb, interview transcript, tape 18, SSAP, 19.
CHAPTER 7: LORRAINE CHECK-IN
Sides, Hellhound on His Trail, 123.
1. W. P. Huston, “Supplemental Report on James Earl Ray,” August 22, 1968, 2, Criminal Investigation Division, Memphis Police Department.
2. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 355.
3. Abernathy, HSCA testimony, vol. 1, 32.
4. Beifuss, At the River I Stand, 356.
5. Abernathy, HSCA testimony, vol. 1, 32.
6. Honey, Going Down Jericho Road, 365.
7. Charles Cabbage, quoted in Southern Patriot (Southern Conference Educational Fund) article by Robert Analvage, as reported by the Memphis FBI bureau,
