[AFRICAN-AMERICANA] [MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR] The Third Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Drum Major Awards Dinner [cover title]

Atlanta: Southern Christian Leadership Conference [SCLC], 1982. Staplebound. Very good. Quarto, unpaginated [22pp.], illustrated. Very good in the publisher's printed blue cardstock wraps, stapled. Contents printed on the same paper as the wraps. Faint discoloration to edges; clean internally. A well-illustrated souvenir book from the 1982 Drum Major Awards Dinner hosted by the SCLC on the 14th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Among the awardees profiled in this booklet are Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, IN, the Morehouse School of Medicine, a group of lawyers in Wrightsville, GA who fought and won a difficult civil rights case that year, as well as James Meredith, Charlayne Hunter-Gault, and Hamilton E. Holmes, among others. Many more photographs and captions reflecting on the year of work done by SCLC and related organizations make up the rest of the contents, as well as the proceedings at the formal dinner. Some advertisements appear at the end, including a plug for "M&M Products Company," a hairstyle company oriented towards African-Americans, with a full view of their product line.