Why We Can't Wait

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A soft cover copy of Why We Can't Wait by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The soft cover book has an adhesive binding. The front cover is white with a large black box dominating the top half of the cover. Inside the box is yellow and white text that reads [MARTIN / LUTHER / KING, Jr. / “Martin Luther King has made himself the unchallenged / voice of the Negro people – and the disquieting conscience / of the whites. That voice in turn has infused the Negroes / with the fiber that gives their revolution its stature.” / -TIME / EIGHT PAGES OF PHOTOGRAPHS]. Below is the box is the book title printed in large black text that reads [WHY WE / CAN’T / WAIT]. At the bottom of the cover, is additional small black text that reads [A SIGNET BOOK COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED].

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