Dr. Martin Luther King Resources
Updated 1/26/04

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Observe Dr. Martin Luther King's Birthday

 
The King Center
The preeminent leader of the modern civil rights movement in the United States, Martin Luther King, Jr., was a charismatic dissenter who embodied and transformed the African-American social gospel tradition. This Stanford University Web Page dedicated to Dr. King has links to full-text documents of Dr. King, and to other resources on his life and times.
A Brief Biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nobel Prize biography.
Letter From the Birmingham Jail
Full text of Dr. King's famous letter that redefined the Civil Rights Movement, written April 16, 1963 while incarcerated in the Birmingham, Alabama city jail.
Nobel Prize Information File on Dr. King
Basic information about Dr. King receiving the Nobel Prize for Peace.
Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech given by Dr. King on December 10, 1964.
Robert Kennedy's Speech On Dr. King's Assassination
On April 4, 1968, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, brother of the President was in Indianapolis, Indiana. This is the speech Kennedy made to the press after learning of Dr. King's assassination. Ironically, it was just a few weeks later that Kennedy himself was assassinated as he campaigned for the presidency, in opposition to the Vietnam War.
National Civil Rights Museum
A page from a "virtual" tour of some key events in the Civil Rights struggle, including this one with a reference to Dr. King.

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