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KING INSTITUTE PROJECTS

The King Papers Project

The King Papers Project produces a comprehensive multi-volume collection of King’s most important correspondence, sermons, publications, speeches, unpublished manuscripts, and other material and makes its significant research efforts available online and in popular books and audios.
Liberation Curriculum

The Liberation Curriculum (LC) initiative provides document-based lesson plans and resources and professional development workshops to inform teachers about global efforts to achieve social justice, human rights and liberation through nonviolent means, with special emphasis on the modern African American freedom struggle. (Photo by Matt Herron)
KING INSTITUTE NEWS

2010 King Holiday Celebration
January 08, 2010

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute invites you to our 2010 King Holiday Celebrationcommemorating the 25th anniversary of the King Papers Project! A schedule of King Holiday events occurring on campus and in the local area can be viewed here.
Commemorate Human Rights Day
December 09, 2009
Commemorate Human Rights Day December 10th in your classroom with this short LC lesson on global human rights issues during Dr. King's time and today.
Clayborne Carson Receives Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Fellowship Award at Boston University
November 10, 2009

Boston – King Institute Director Clayborne Carson was honored during a Boston University celebration of "The Lasting legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr." Carson received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Fellowship Award from the university's Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, where many of King's papers are deposited. More
2009 King Institute Brochure
October 01, 2009
Read our new brochure online! Learn about all aspects of the King Institute including the King Papers Project, the Liberation Curriculum, and bios on Scholar in Residence, Clarence B. Jones and Director Clayborne Carson.
Teacher Created KDHP Lessons
September 16, 2009

California teachers selected to participate in the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funded King Digital History Project created model lesson plans on Dr. King and the African-American freedom struggle, using the King Institute's documentary resources and professional development training.
Online King Records Access (OKRA) Launched
May 18, 2009
The King Research and Education Institute is launching an online database making details and descriptions of over four thousand documents on or about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

KING RESOURCES


Visit the King Resources area of our site for resources including:
• King’s biography and autobiography
• King’s speeches and sermons
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
King Online Encyclopedia

Search here for information on over 1000 civil rights movement figures, events and organizations.
About Martin Luther King, Jr.

Read a biographical essay on Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared by King Institute director Clayborne Carson and the Institute staff, extensively cross-referenced with links to the King Online Encyclopedia.
A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr.

This volume features the landmark speeches of King's career, spanning from the Montgomery bus boycott to his last speech in Memphis.
Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 28 August 1963

King delivers his iconic speech "I Have a Dream" and urges America to "make real the promises of democracy."(Photo credit UPI/Corbis-Bettman)
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail, 16 April 1963

King writes an impassioned defense to eight clergymen critical of his involvement in the Birmingham Campaign and calls for the church to support the movement.
Martin Luther King, Jr.,The Drum Major Instinct, 4 February 1968

King's historic sermon at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church was to become his own eulogy two months later.