200,000 Martin Luther King Papers Go Online
from Open Culture by Dan Colman
What better way to celebrate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.? Today, the King Center has made available online 200,000 papers belonging to the civil rights leader ? the first step to bringing more than one million documents to the web. The documents give you a good glimpse of Dr. King?s role as a scholar, father, pastor and catalyst for change. And, among the papers, you will find ?speeches, telegrams, scribbled notes, patient admonitions and urgent pleas.? Notable documents worth visiting include King?s 1964 Nobel Prize Acceptance Lecture, his Eulogy for the Four Girls Murdered in Birmingham (1963), a draft of his world-changing ?I Have a Dream? speech, and much more.
Martin Luther King Jr Quotes: 12 Inspirational Excerpts on Tumblr
from Mashable! by Chelsea Stark
Many in the United States got the day off work Monday in celebration of the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights leader and minister credited with bringing equal rights to African Americans, and tangentially, many other minority groups. Even after his assassination in 1968, his legacy as well as his moving speeches have inspired people to follow in Dr. King?s path.
Celebrating Martin Luther King Day by giving back
Today, Martin Luther King Day of Service in the U.S., Googlers around the country worked with community service organizations to lend a helping hand in their area and commemorate the holiday.