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I Have a Dream speech
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Address at March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
28 August 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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"In 2005, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute was created to provide an institutional home for a broad range of activities illuminating the Nobel Peace laureate’s life and the movements he inspired. The Institute’s endowment " See items under the King Resources section.
The King Center
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"Established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (“The King Center”) has been a global destination, resource center and community institution for over a quarter century. Nearly a million people each year make pilgrimage to the National Historic Site to learn, be inspired and pay their respects to Dr. King’s legacy."

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All Labor Has Dignity by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: HD6971.8 .K56 2011
ISBN: 0807086002

"Gathered in one volume for the first time, the majority of these speeches will be new to most readers. The collection begins with King's lectures to unions in the 1960s and includes his addresses made during his Poor People's Campaign, culminating with his momentous "Mountaintop" speech..." Beacon Press
American Experience. Roads to Memphis
Call Number: E185.97.K5 R63 2010
ISBN: 9781608832118

"Documents the story of assassin, James Earl Ray, his target, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the seething, turbulent forces in American society that led these two men to their violent and tragic collision in Memphis in April of 1968. Explores the wildly disparate, yet fatefully entwined stories of Ray and King to create a complex, engaging, and thought-provoking portrait of America in that crisis-laden year."
Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
Call Number: E185.97.K5 S534 2010
ISBN: 0385523920

The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for his Assassin
"Historian Sides follows Ray and King as they crisscross the country, one stalking the other, until the drifter catches up with his prey."
Martin Luther King's Biblical Epic: His Final, Great Speech by Keith D. Miller
Call Number: E185.97.K5 M4898 2012
ISBN: 9781617031083
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: E185.97.K5 A52 1998
ISBN: 0446524123
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Call Number: E185.97.K5 A2 2005
ISBN: 9780520242395

v. 1. Called to serve, January 1929-June 1951 -- v. 2. Rediscovering precious values, July 1951-November, 1955 -- v. 3. Birth of a new age, December 1955-December 1956 -- v. 4. Symbol of the movement, January 1957-December 1958 -- v. 5. Threshold of a new decade, January 1959-December 1960
The Word of the Lord Is upon Me by Jonathan Rieder
Call Number: E185.97.K5 R54 2010
ISBN: 0674046986

"Barnard College Sociologist Jonathan Rieder delves deeply into the complex life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. The anchor for Rieder’s analysis is King’s “righteous performance,” in which Rieder sees “an uncommon ability to glide in and out of black, white and other idioms and identities in an elaborate dance of empathy.”" Harvard Univ Press Blog

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at CNU

Monday, January 20th: Classes will not meet from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. so that you may participate in Christopher Newport’s commemoration.

● At 3 p.m., we will meet on the Great Lawn for music and reflection. We’ll then march to the Diamonstein Concert Hall for a program that includes student performances and contributions by faculty and special guests.

● At 8 p.m. you are invited to the concert hall for a President’s Leadership Program address by the Honorable John Charles Thomas, a retired justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.

This day will have more meaning for all of us when we, as a community, join together to learn, listen, serve and reflect. I look forward to seeing you on the 20th as we honor Dr. King who was an extraordinary leader whose legacy is a freer and fairer America.