Where Do We Go from Here

New York: Harper & Row, 1967. 1st ed. [so stated]. Also has "D-R" code. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 209p. Original light bronze paper-covered boards backed in black cloth. dj. 21 cm. Jacket has only modest edge-wear, mostly at top of flap fold and at bottom of backstrip where some chipping and short tears are visible. INSCRIBED by King on front free endpaper. ("To Dr. and Mrs. Jesse Holland With best wishes for Peace and Brotherhood Martin Luther King Jr."). Dr. Holland and his wife lived in a big old Victorian house in an exclusive area of Far Rockaway on Long Island. Family members believe that Dr. Holland and his wife were donors to Martin Luther King, Jr. or the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Included with the book is an 18 x 25 cm. photo of MLK, Jr. and Jessica E. Holland, the Holland's daughter, standing outside an unidentified building. King is holding some items including an unidentified issue of a Birmingham newspaper in one hand and has his other arm casually around Jessica who has a giggly expression on her face. The photo is undated but was almost surely taken by her father in 1967 or 1968 with the Minolta camera that his family says he often carried slung around his neck. The family also says that Dr. Holland was a great doctor but not a great photographer. The location of the photo is unidentified but was probably at or near some place where Jessica was working or volunteering with the SCLC or King. Jessica shows up in a couple of Barnard Bulletins put online by the institution's Barnard Digital Archives. Both articles relate to Jessica, then identified as class of 1968, and her participation in a February 8, 1967 sit in outside the room on campus where the CIA was conducting employment interviews. Jessica was given a formal letter of censure by the institution's Judicial Council for that participation. She was also warned that a repeat offence would subject her to suspension. A friend who knew her during the period of her life remembers Jessica as having been a member of Students for a Democratic Society (S.D.S.). Family members believe that Jessica took the 1967-68 academic year off from Barnard College to work or volunteer with King and the SCLC. Her family does not know exactly what she did to help King and the SCLC but she was described in a memorial tribute by the editors of Oral History Review as "a key member of Dr. Martin Luther King's staff at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference." Jessica apparently returned to Barnard for the next academic year after King's assassination. She graduated Barnard in 1969 and subsequently completed the Graduate Seminar in Oral History at Columbia University. Jessica later worked as a corporate oral historian. Her clients included the New York Stock Exchange, McKinsey and Company, Philip Morris and AT&T. She had just begun or committed to begin work on the oral history of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts before she died while on vacation in France in 1969 when she and her bicycle were struck by a car. (Inventory #: 94946)