Cultural and Ra cial Diversity Committee Blog: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service

Links to Library of Congress Online Exhibits, Etc.

Civil rights (Dr. King)

http://memory.loc.gov/learn/community/cc_civilrights.php

From Slavery to Civil Rights
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/civilrights/flash.html

“With an Even Hand” Brown v Board at Fifty
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/

Voices of Civil Rights
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civilrights/

African-American Odyssey
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/

Born in Slavery
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html

The African-American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

Audio Links

You may wish to begin the celebration of Martin Luther King by playing his “I have a dream” speech and have students complete a sound recording analysis worksheet from the National Archives while listening to Dr. King’s speech.

Link to analysis worksheet:
(http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/worksheets/sound.html)

Link to Dr. King’s “I have a dream speech”
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkihaveadream.htm
http://www.hpol.org/master.php?t=browse&s=speaker&id=12

Photos

People gathered at the Lincoln Memorial where Martin Luther King delivered his "I Have A Dream" speech in 1963
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/king_4

Civil rights march on Washington, D.C.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+03128))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+03130))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+03129))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Civil rights march on Wash[ington], D.C.
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+04297))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c33090))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Congress of Racial Equality conducts march in memory of Negro youngsters killed in Birmingham bombings, All Souls Church, 16th Street
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(ppmsca+04298))+@field(COLLID+cph))

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King addresses gathering of followers after their aborted march yesterday in Selma, Ala
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c11158))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Martin Luther King, Jr. pictured in crowd at the end of the Selma-Montgomery Rights March, Montgomery, Alabama
http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?pp/ils:@filreq(@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3c27735))+@field(COLLID+cph))

Martin Luther King Jr. photo
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/king/aa_king_subj_e.html

Other Primary Documents of Interest, e.g. speeches, time lines, etc.

Copy of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream"
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/029))

Letter, Martin Luther King, Jr., to A. Philip Randolph concerning King's Nobel Peace Prize

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mcc:@field(DOCID+@lit(mcc/067))

Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Ebenezer Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(GA0474))

Martin Luther King Jr.

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/king

Voting for Change

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/king/selma_1

Bus Boycott in Alabama

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/king/bus_1

Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. Was Born

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/wwii/king_1

The First March From Selma

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/modern/selma_1

King's Letter from a Birmingham Jail

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/activists/king/jail_1