“A. Philip Randolph,” in Bernard K. Johnpoll & Harvey Klehr, eds., Biographical Dictionary of  the American Left (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,1986), pp. 326-29.

“Bayard Rustin,” in Bernard K. Johnpoll & Harvey Klehr, eds., Biographical Dictionary of  the American Left (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,1986), pp. 337-39.

“Leadership and Competition in the Civil Rights Movement,” in Charles W. Eagles, ed., The Civil Rights Movement in America (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1986), pp. 55-64.

“Martin Luther King, Jr.,” in Leonard W. Levy, ed., Encyclopedia of  the American Constitution, vol. 3  (New York: Macmillan, 1986), pp.1103-04. (Reprinted in Kenneth L. Karst, ed., Civil Rights and Equality [New York: Macmillan, 1989], pp. 233-34).

“Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Strategy of Protest,” in Jack Bass and Thomas E. Terrill, eds., The American South Comes of Age (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986), pp. 208-212. (Adapted from Protest At Selma).

“Morris Childs,” in Bernard K. Johnpoll & Harvey Klehr, eds., Biographical Dictionary of  the American Left (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,1986), pp. 68-69.

“William Weiner,” in Bernard K. Johnpoll & Harvey Klehr, eds., Biographical Dictionary of the American Left (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press,1986), pp. 409-10.

Patrick Washburn, A Question of Sedition, in the Journal of American History 73 (December 1986): 802-803.

“Black Civil Rights During the Eisenhower Years,” Constitutional Commentary 3 (Summer 1986): 361-373. (Reprinted in King and the Movement, Vol. 4, pp. 269-281).

Hanes Walton, Invisible Politics: Black Political Behavior, in South Atlantic Quarterly 85 (Summer 1986): 310-311.

Linda McMurry, Recorder of the Black Experience, in the Journal of Southern History 52 (May 1986): 322-323.

“Farm Workers’ Struggle,” The Progressive 50 (February 1986): 42-43. (J. Craig Jenkins, The Politics of Insurgency).

John M. Oseth, Regulating U.S. Intelligence Operations, in Perspective 15 (January-February 1986): 9.

“The Intellectual Development of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Influences and Commentaries,” Union Seminary Quarterly Review 40 (January 1986): 5-20. (Reprinted in King and the Movement, Vol. 2, pp. 437-452, and in John A. Kirk, ed., Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement [London: Palgrave, 2007], pp. 39-53).

“The King We Should Remember,” Focus 14 (January 1986): 3-7.