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Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Research and Education Institute at Stanford University

Established by Mrs. Coretta Scott King (1968)

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If you search "MLK" in Follett Discovery and select the "website" tab, you will access a list of 66 articles related to Martin Luther King, Jr. This is my personal favorite thus far. Which one captures your attention?

"How MLK became an angry Black man" by John Blake. CNN. April 16, 2013.

https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/16/us/king-birmingham-jail-letter-anniversary/index.html

Just because he embraced nonviolence doesn't mean that Martin Luther King, Jr. never got angry. Alone and dejected in a dirty jail cell, he scribbled words on bits of paper and had a visitor smuggle them out. His visitor was focused on getting him bailed out, but the letter written on the scraps of paper have inspired millions of people. "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" has become a key document defending civil disobedience.

Through this article, meet the less reserved side on Dr. King. The man who bristled at whites who encouraged him to wait.

A Message to Our Youth

Source: Beacon Press (Youtube)

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Hear The Voice of Dr. Martin Luther King

CNN.com offers several interesting articles about the speeches and interviews of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Above in a photo link to a lost interview with King in which he talked about the impact of the Kennedy family's intervention to have him released from a Georgia prison after being sentenced to four months of hard labor for a traffic violation. Below, A brief excerpt from the accompanying article bringing insight to impact of the Kennedy's intervention. Read this and other articles ( especially like this one about King's speeches. ) on the CNN website.

"The Kennedys' intervention is credited with shifting support of Black voters in crucial northern states to the Kennedy side and away from Richard Nixon, whose campaign only offered a "no comment" when asked about the civil rights leader's imprisonment." - CNN

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Books from our Catalog

Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Call Number: FIC STO
ISBN: 9781101939505
Publication Date: 2017-10-17
;New York Times bestselling debut, a William C. Morris Award Finalist. Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend--but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. Then comes the day Justyce goes driving with his best friend, Manny, windows rolled down, music turned up--way up, sparking the fury of a white off-duty cop beside them. Words fly. Shots are fired. Justyce and Manny are caught in the crosshairs. In the media fallout, it's Justyce who is under attack.
April 4, 1968 by Michael Eric Dyson
Call Number: 323.092 DYS
ISBN: 9780465002122
Publication Date: 2008-04-01
On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King--the prophet for racial and economic justice in America--ended his final speech with the words, "I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the Promised Land.” Acclaimed public intellectual and best-selling author Michael Eric Dyson uses the fortieth anniversary of King’s assassination as the occasion for a provocative and fresh examination of how King fought, and faced, his own death, and we should use his death and legacy. Dyson also uses this landmark anniversary as the starting point for a comprehensive reevaluation of the fate of Black America over the four decades that followed King’s death. Dyson ambitiously investigates the ways in which African-Americans have in fact made it to the Promised Land of which King spoke, while shining a bright light on the ways in which the nation has faltered in the quest for racial justice. He also probes the virtues and flaws of charismatic black leadership that has followed in King’s wake, from Jesse Jackson to Barack Obama. Always engaging and inspiring, April 4, 1968 celebrates the prophetic leadership of Dr. King, and challenges America to renew its commitment to his deeply moral vision.
MLK and "The Other America" and "Black Power" by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: 973 KIN (on our Destiny Discover E-book shelf)
ISBN: 0807097799
Presents two works by Baptist minister and civil rights leader, Martin Luther King which examines economic inequality, police brutality, and black power.