Between the Covers

Softcover. Stated "Special Edition," and likely first edition. Small octavo. 31pp. Stapled printed self-wrappers. Bottom corner chipped, tiny crease in another corner, modest vertical crease, overall a very good copy. The transcript for a special 90-minute edition of *Meet the Press*, a panel discussion with Dr. King and five other Civil Rights leaders that included Roy Wilkins, Whitney M. Young, Jr., Floyd B. McKissick, Stokley Carmichael and James Meredith. It was moderated by Edwin Newman, with five additional panel members that included Black journalist Carl Rowan; Lawrence E. Spivak, the vehemently truculent producer and defender of segregation; and the conservative King-antagonist and columnist James J. Kilpatrick. The fourth of five of King’s appearances on *Meet the Press*. The panel of Black activists were seated by age and King was obliged to sit on the ‘back bench” with the other younger men, Carmichael and Meredith, despite the fact that King had won the Nobel Peace Prize the year before. Very uncommon. *OCLC* locates five copies.

Item #456954