Wikipedia's topic entry specifically on Thoreau's 1849 essay Civil Disobedience, including King's own account of first reading it as a Morehouse student.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Disobedience_(essay)
Source Typereference
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Wikipedia's article carries no named author or fixed editorial board behind any version of the page, hence the lower tier, though it is useful here for King's own autobiographical account of first reading Thoreau's essay at Morehouse. Sources
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