Poynter Online's Links to the News column compiles Web
resources on current and previous news topics. This page links to
resources about Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King, Jr.
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University Web Pages
Martin Luther King, Jr. Papers Project (Stanford University)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Louisiana State University)
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk/
A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Long Island University)
http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm
Martin Luther King, Jr. (Middle Tennessee State University)
http://www.mtsu.edu/~vvesper/king.html
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at Oberlin
http://www.oberlin.edu/
~EOG/BlackHistoryMonth/MLK/MLKmainpage.html
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Popular MLK Documents
"I Have a Dream" Speech (National Civil Rights Museum)
http://web66.coled.umn.edu/new/MLK/MLK.html
"Letter from Birmingham Jail" (Nobel Website)
http://nobelprizes.com/nobel/peace/MLK-jail.html
"I've Been to the Mountaintop" Speech
(MLK Jr. Papers Project)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
"I've Been to the Mountaintop" Speech
(American RadioWorks)
http://americanradioworks.publicradio.org/
features/sayitplain/mlking.html
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Media Sites
Seattle Times
http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/index.html
Montgomery Advertiser (December 1, 2005)
(The story of Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement)
http://www.montgomeryboycott.com/frontpage.htm
Citizen King (PBS, American Experience, 2004)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/
Time 100
http://www.time.com/time/
time100/leaders/profile/king.html
Life Magazine (Web archive)
http://www.life.com/Life/mlk/mlk.html
The Washington Post / Newsweek
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp-srv/national/longterm/mlk/legacy/legacy.htm
Correspondence: The Preacher and the Editor
(Roy Peter Clark, St. Petersburg Times, 2003)
http://www.sptimes.com/
2003/01/19/Perspective/Correspondence__The_p.shtml
Martin Luther King, Jr. in His Own Words (Time.com)
http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/mlk/
Martin Luther King, Jr. Newspaper Archive
http://martinlutherkingjrarchive.com/
- Additional Resources
MLK Online
http://mlkonline.net/
LOC.GOV Wise Guide (Library of Congress)
http://www.loc.gov/wiseguide/jan03/kingjr.html
Today in History: January 15 (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jan15.html
The Student Days of MLK (Black Collegian Magazine)
http://www.black-collegian.com/african/aking.shtml
MLK Quotes (Quoteland.com)
http://www.quoteland.com/author.asp?AUTHOR_ID=33
U.S. DOJ Investigation of Recent Allegations Regarding the
Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (June 2000)
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/crim/mlk/part1.htm
Ongoing Tributes to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Black Collegian Magazine )
http://www.black-collegian.com/african/mlktributes.shtml
Poynter Online articles
Unconventional Wisdom About Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Mary Sanchez, January 2004)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=59153
Covering King (Keith Woods, September 2003)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=58&aid=46697
More Than a Dream (Peter A. McKay, 2002)
http://www.poynter.org/
content/content_view.asp?id=4163&sid=5
Just Head Down to Martin Luther King (Victor Merina, 2002)
http://www.poynter.org/
content/content_view.asp?id=14549
MLK on What Great Leaders Do (Lillian Dunlap, 2002)
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=34&aid=2555
On The Road to Civil Rights (Keith Woods, 1997)
http://www.poynterextra.org/extra/king/begin.htm
Links to the News:Black History Month
(Includes information about the civil rights movement)
http://poynter.org/column.asp?id=49&aid=1133