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...
Martin Luther King, Jr. : a biography
Bruns, Roger A.
Paper Book
There has been recent controversy in the African American community about youth and their lack of appreciation for the gains of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s. This stellar biography is a superb introduction to the foremost leader of the civil rights movement. The story and...
Becoming King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of a national leader
Jackson, Troy
Paper Book
"The history books may write it Reverend King was born in Atlanta, and then came to Montgomery, but we feel that he was born in Montgomery in the struggle here, and now he is moving to Atlanta for bigger responsibilities."--Member of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, November 1959 Preacher--this...
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 : the untold story of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy
Margolick, David
Paper Book
No two public figures were more crucial in the drama of race relations in the 1960s than Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy. Fifty years after they were both murdered, noted journalist David Margolick explores the untold story of the complex and ever-evolving relationship between these...
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
Two brief yet powerful meditations from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. defining humanity's worth and completion relate to strides toward social justice. Eloquent and passionate, reasoned and sensitive, this pair of meditations by the revered civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King,...
At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68
Branch, Taylor.
Paper Book
'At Canaan's Edge' chronicles dramatic campaigns in Mississippi and Alabama, King's tormented alliance with Lyndon Johnson, his painful break with Stokey Carmichael over black power, and persecution by Hoover's FBI. This book brings the decades of the Civil Rights struggle alive and preserves the...
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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