KING INSTITUTE PROJECTS
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a comprehensive multi-volume collection of King’s most important correspondence, sermons, publications, speeches, unpublished manuscripts, and other material and makes its significant research efforts available online and in popular books and audios.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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’s biography and autobiography
• King’s speeches and sermons
• Montgomery Bus Boycott
• March on Washington
Search here for information on over 1000 civil rights movement figures, events and organizations.
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.
This volume features the landmark speeches of King's career, spanning from the Montgomery bus boycott to his last speech in Memphis.
King delivers his iconic speech "I Have a Dream" and urges America to "make real the promises of democracy."(Photo credit UPI/Corbis-Bettman)
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.
King's historic sermon at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church was to become his own eulogy two months later.