Honoring MLK

Updated January 14, 2026
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Martin Luther King "I have a dream."
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
DVD
Contains King's entire inspirational speech in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1963. Also included: The Big March (1963), March on Washington (1963), and The March Twenty Years Later (1983).
The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Paper Book
Written by Martin Luther King, Jr. himself, this astounding autobiography brings to life a remarkable man changed the world --and still inspires the desires, hopes, and dreams of us all. Martin Luther King: the child and student who rebelled against segregation. The...
Let the trumpet sound : the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Oates, Stephen B.
Paper Book
April 4, 1968, and a gunshot rings out in the Memphis sky, fatally wounding Martin Luther King Jr. In 'Let the Trumpet Sound', award-winning biographer Stephen B. Oates resurrects the heart, soul and life of the tireless civil rights campaigner.
The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
Joseph, Peniel E.
Paper Book
This "landmark" (Ibram X. Kendi, New York Times-bestselling author of How to Be an Antiracist) dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic...
The Promise and the Dream
Margolick, David.
Paper Book
Fifty years after the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy, acclaimed journalist David Margolick reveals the untold story of the complex relationship between the two remarkable men. With the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F....
Waking from the dream : the struggle for civil rights in the shadow of Martin Luther King Jr.
Chappell, David L.
Paper Book
The author of A Stone of Hope, called "one of the three or four most important books on the civil rights movement" by The Atlantic Monthly, turns his attention to the years after Martin Luther King's assassination--and provides a sweeping history of the struggle to keep the civil...
The measure of a man
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Paper Book
Man is more than a wisp of smoke from a limitless smoldering. Man is a child of God. This is a pair of meditations by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history
Theoharis, Jeanne
Paper Book
Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement...
Voices of freedom : an oral history of the civil rights movement from the 1950s through the 1980s
Hampton, Henry
Paper Book
Based on the archives used in the prize-winning PBS television series, this unique companion to Eyes on the Prize II is the only oral history of America's civil rights movement from 1954 to the present. The new series will air early this year.

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