In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Civil Rghts March on Washington, D.C.
National Archives – NAID: 542069

Listen on NPR to Martin Luther King’s “celebrated speech -“I Have a Dream…”
Delivered on Aug. 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

And

Read Martin Luther King’s –
Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Written following Dr. King’s arrest in Birmingham, Alabama for violating state law against mass public demonstrations. “This iteration is a copy transcribed and then sent to various clergymen in Birmingham, Alabama, including Rev. Joe C. Higginbotham, and includes the original envelope and transcription control sheet.Dr. King’s. “(- From the University of Alabama Libraries Special Collection.)

“Soul Force”: Published following Martin Luther King’s assassination in January 1971.

“Soul Force” Newsletter, volume 3, number 3. January 1971. Cover photo with text.
Written by Rev. Ralph David Abernathy. Published by Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of
African American History and Culture. CCO. Object number 2015.130.4