Martin Luther King Jr. Week

 

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Did You Know?

Your Library has a wealth of online resources that can help enrich your understanding of Martin Luther King Jr., the Civil Rights Movement, and even your own personal history. It all can be found in our Databases. 

	You can search your family and local history through Heritage Quest.	Find in Genealogy
	You can read articles from four Historic Black Newspapers: Atlanta Daily World The Baltimore Afro-American Chicago Defender New York Amsterdam News Information dates back to the late 1800s.	Find in Magazines and Newspapers
	The African American Studies Center contains over 5,000 biographies, more than 7,500 articles, and hundreds of maps, documents, images, timelines, websites and charts and tables of African-American life, history and culture.	Find in Biography
	Legal Forms Online provides access to standard legal forms drafted by attorneys for the District of Columbia. Subject areas include bankruptcy, bill of sale, contracts, divorce, employment, landlord tenant, living wills, name change, power of attorney, real estate, taxes, and last will and testament.	Find in Law

In King's Own Words (Video)

Browse the King Center digital archives for full text of King speeches, sermons and more. 
"I Have a Dream" -- Aug. 28, 1963

How Long? Not Long" -- March 25, 1965

"We Shall Overcome" -- March 31, 1968

"I've Been to the Mountaintop" -- April 3, 1968

Good Reads

Across That Bridge by John Lewis	I Must Resist: Bayard Rustin's Life in Letters by Bayard Rustin	Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable	I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches by Martin Luther King Jr.	All Labor Has Dignity by Martin Luther King Jr.	Martin Luther King Jr.: The Essential Boxed Set by Martin Luther King Jr.

Good Movies

A Class Apart	Citizen King	Ghosts of Mississippi	Malcolm X	Boycott	The History Makers

Kid Picks

BookFlix Video storybooks paired with factual eBooks for preschoolers, kindergartners and beginning readers.	TrueFlix Experience facts about subjects in history, science and geography. Ages 9-11.	FreedomFlix Explore American History through videos, online books and quizzes. Ages 9 and older.

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