Dedicated to documenting the life of America's best-known advocate for peace and justice, this book breaks the chronology of its series to present King's sermon file. This book reveals that King's concern about poverty and social justice was present in his handwritten sermons, which conveyed a message of faith, hope, and love for the dispossessed.

His enduring message can be charted through his years as a seminary student, as pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, as a leader of the Montgomery bus boycott, and, ultimately, as an internationally renowned proponent of human rights who saw himself mainly as a preacher and 'advocate of the social gospel'. Ten of the original and unedited sermons King submitted for publication in the 1963 book "Strength to Love" and audio versions of King's most famous sermons are the culmination of this groundbreaking work.