Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Ph.D., Boston University (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Nobel Laureate, Baptist minister, and African American civil rights activist. He is one of the most significant leaders in U.S. history and in the modern history of non-violence, and is considered a hero, peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world. A decade and a half after his 1968 assassination, Martin Luther King Day, a U.S. holiday, was established in his honor. He also was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

External links

• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project
• The King Center
• Martin Luther King Jr.'s FBI file
• Department of Justice investigation on King assassination
• The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr.
• Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Peace
• Speeches of Martin Luther King
• Pamphlet on King and Socialism from the Socialist Party USA (PDF)
• Martin Luther King, Jr's pictures and selected quotes
• "The MLK you don't see on TV" from FAIR
• The Martin Luther King Center(german)

Video and audio material

• Collection of Audio/Video files of Martin Luther King Jr.
• Internet Archive: The New Negro, King interviewed by J. Waites Waring.
• "Real Audio" online version of the "I Have a Dream" speech at the HistoryChannel's site
• http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm Mp3 and transcript of the "I Have a Dream" speech