Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here's a great start page from Stanford University, which includes links to papers, biographies, speeches, articles, and more. It's a great place to start your online research.

Here's a King tribute page from Life Magazine, where you can gain access to both images and covers. How many covers feature King? Spanning what decades? What does this suggest?

This page has information about the King National Historical Site, located in Atlanta. What might you learn there that other biographical material doesn't pay much attention to?

Click here for some info about the HBO movie Boycott. This film deals with the Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama in 1956. Did you see it when it played recently? If you didn't, will you now that you know more about it?

In a related bit of information here's a photo of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery. Describe the photo in as much detail as you can. Why is this such a famous photo?

If you'd like to put King's work into a historical context, you will want to know something about the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. To get you started here's a good general page about the Civil Rights Movement from The Encyclopedia Britannica.

Would you still like to do some more web surfing? Here is the homepage for a King scavenger hunt site.

Here is a link to an excerpt from "I Have a Dream " in RealAudio. Try to read along if you can. What differs in your reading and Dr. King's? What do you make of the emphasis he places on certain words? What makes him a great speaker?

Here's King's speech "The Purpose of Education. " Write a summary of the speech. What is the purpose of education put forth? Do you agree?

Still hungry for more of this author's work? Here is a page with lots of links to King in RealAudio.