Martin Luther King Jr. Week
Events | Did You Know?
Good Reads | Good Movies | For Children | For Teens
Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Week Jan. 13-20. Experience programs about social justice, art and the crisis in black education.
Events:
Attend story times, make crafts and listen to engaging speakers. Find these events and more in the calendar.
FEATURED EVENTS
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| Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Story Time January 15 at Takoma |
Citizen King January 15 at Georgetown |
Evening Movies: Selma January 15 at Tenley-Friendship |
The March on Washington: A Discussion with Jamie Stiehm January 16 at Cleveland Park |
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| Kites for King January 17 at Southeast |
Poor People's Campaign Teach-In January 17 at Shaw |
Songs and Stories of Freedom and Peace January 15 at Petworth |
The Radical King January 24 at Southwest |
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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.
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You can search your family and local history through Heritage Quest. | Find in Genealogy |
You can read articles from four historic black newspapers:
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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 |
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Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to black studies that includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles and much more. | Find in Black Studies Online Research |
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The African American Experience contains 500 full-text reference and scholarly articles and over 4,000 slave narratives. Includes primary documents, maps and images, lesson plans, searchable timelines and Web links. | Find in Black Studies Online Research |
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Good Reads
 The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin |
 The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr. by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. |
 The March on Washington: Jobs and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights by Will Jones |
 The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch |
 Martin's Dream: My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr: A Memoir by Clayborne Carson |
 Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation by Jonathan Rieder |
 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. |
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Good Movies
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| A Class Apart | Citizen King | Ghosts of Mississippi | Malcolm X | Boycott | The History Makers |
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For Children
Books
 My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by Martin Luther King III |
 Martin and Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney |
 I Have a Dream by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.; Paintings by Kadir Nelson |
 Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington by Gary Jeffrey |
 Marching to the Mountaintop: How Poverty, Labor Fights and Civil Rights Set the Stage for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Final Hours by Ann Bausum |
 Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton |
 Martin Luther King Jr: Great Civil Rights Leader by Jennifer Fandel |
DVDs
 Selma, Lord, Selma Disney DVD |
 March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World...And More Stories About African American History Scholastic Storybook Treasures |
Online Resources
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| 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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For Teens
 M.L.K.: Journey of a King by Tonya Bolden |
 We Troubled the Waters by Ntozake Shange |
 To the Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement by Charlayne Hunter-Gault |
 March: Book One by John Lewis |
 The Silence of Our Friends by Mark Long |
 I See the Promised Land: A Life of Martin Luther King Jr. by Arthur Flowers |
 Still I Rise by Roland Laird |
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