Dr. Martin Luther King Resources
Updated 1/26/04
Internet Resources to Help
Observe Dr. Martin Luther
King's Birthday
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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.
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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.
- Return to the Stiern Middle School Library Web Links Page..