This research guide offers resources available in the Monmouth University Library on Martin Luther King Jr (MLK). The guide was created to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's visit and speech on the Monmouth campus on October 6, 1966. Details about the visit.
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King [videorecording] : a filmed record; Montgomery to Memphis E185.97.K5 K56 2009 (media collection)
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family.
Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Web. 12 Jan 2016. <http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html>
Becoming King by 
I Have a Dream by 
Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom by 
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. by 
Martin Luther King, Jr. by 
"In an inescapable network of mutuality" : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the globalization of an ethical ideal / edited by Lewis V. Baldwin and Paul R. Dekar ; foreword by Vicki L. Crawford. by Search for additional books in the MU catalog.
Stanford University: The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
The Institute supports a broad range of activities illuminating the Nobel Peace laureate’s life and the movements he inspired. The Institute’s publications, public programs, workshops, and website inform a diverse global audience about King’s dream of global peace with social justice.
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.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site
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