Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? Summary and Analysis

This book compiled a history of the nonviolent movement for civil rights, an argument against Black Power as a movement, and Dr. King's vision for the needs of the country and the world. Mr. Washington, who edited all the book of writings and speeches, chose to include only chapters one, two, five and six of the original. The missing chapters may be vital to an understanding of Martin Luther King and the challenges he faced in his efforts to obtain justice and rights for all people of the country.

In the years after the 1964 Civil Rights Act, bigotry, prejudice and hypocrisy combined with half-truths and lies. The majority of changes were an allowance of decency, but not equity. The changes were cheap, laws enacted without...