Martin Luther King Jr.
The Wise Guide
Martin Luther King, Jr. (America's Story)
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr. and the Laws That Changed America (Video)
Copy of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech
Letter, Martin Luther King, Jr., to A. Philip Randolph concerning King's Nobel Peace Prize, 2 November 1964
Luther. And he started non-violent demonstrations! (1969)
Photographs:
Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom in Washington, D.C. (1957)
Standing, left to right: Arun Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Roy Wilkins (1957)
Martin Luther King, Jr., pulls up cross that was burned on lawn of his home, as his son stands next to him, Atlanta, Georgia (1960)
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at airport with wife and children, Yolanda and Martin III, after being freed from prison, Chamblee, Georgia (1960)
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., civil rights leader, half-length portrait, seated, facing front at a New York press conference (1961)
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., behind bars in jail in St. Augustine, Florida (1962)
Police officer seizing Dr. Martin Luther King by the seat of his trousers and leading him to a paddy wagon, after anti-segregation march in Birmingham, Ala. (1963)
Washington: The Rev. Martin Luther King delivers his address at the Lincoln Memorial here 8/28 during the civil rights march on Washington (1963)
Mayor Wagner greets Dr. & Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr. at City Hall (1964)
Dr. Martin Luther King seated at table, and Rev. Ralph Abernathy standing in jail cell, St. John's County jail, St. Augustine, Fla (1964)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addressing C.O.R.E. demonstrators who are protesting the seating of the Mississippi delegation during the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, N.J. (1964)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and family surrounded by reporters at Atlanta airport on their way to Oslo where he is to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left (1964)
Dr. & Mrs. Martin Luther King Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front (1964)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. arriving at the Federal Bureau of Investigation to meet with FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (1964)
Martin Luther King press conference (1964)
Rabbi Abraham Heschel, three-quarter length portrait, presenting Judaism and World Peace award to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1965)
Dr. King tours Nassau County (1965)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. addresses group of Watts residents following the summer riots of 1965
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. chats with Vice-President Hubert Humphrey as they shake hands (1965)
Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing right, gesturing with right fist while delivering speech at Girard College, Philadelphia (1965)
Martin Luther King Jr., three head-and-shoulders portraits, facing left (1967)
Martin Luther King, Jr., head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, looking out from a crowd (1967)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., half-length portrait, facing right, delivering sermon from pulpit of Atlanta church (1967)
Somebody paid the price for your right register/vote. (bet. 1968-1980)
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1929-1968--in memoriam (bet. 1968-1980)
Roy Wilkins with Martin Luther King, Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Asa Philip Randolph and others
Important Buildings in his work/life:
Martin Luther King Jr. Birth Home, 501 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 514 Auburn Avenue (Duplex), 514 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Ebenezer Baptist Church, 407 Auburn Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 472-550 Auburn Avenue & 39 Boulevard Avenue, 472-550 Auburn Avenue & 39 Boulevard Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Brown-Hayes Department Store, 461-467 Edgewood Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, 526 Auburn Avenue (House), 526 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, Smith-Charleston House, 509 Auburn Avenue Northeast, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Auburn Avenue & Boulevard (Houses), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Howell Street (Houses), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
91 Howell Street (House), Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Benorsey Boyce House, 78 Howell Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA
Rich's Downtown Department Store, 45 Broad Street, Atlanta, Fulton County, GA (location from which Civil Rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested)
Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church, 2401 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Cook County, IL
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, 1530 Sixth Avenue North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
Civil Rights Movement
Letter, Eleanor Roosevelt to Walter White detailing the First Lady's lobbying efforts for federal action against lynchings, 19 March 1936.
Timothy Thomas Fortune (1856-1928) [photograph or print]
A eulogy on Wendell Phillips / by Archibald H. Grimké, April 9, 1884
Photographs:
"We don't want no troublemakers from the United States" / Herblock. (1961)
Fannie Lou Hamer, in a civil rights march, Hattiesburg, Mississippi (bet. 1962-1964)
Civil rights activists occupying a lunchroom counter during a sit-in (bet. 1962-1964)
Civil rights leaders (left to right): Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Council, attorney General Robert Kennedy; Roy Wilkins, Executive Secretary of the NAACP; and Vice President Lyndon Johnson, after a special White House conference on civil rights (1963)
"What do you mean, 'not so fast'?" (1963)
The March on Washington, August 28 (1963)
Bomb-damaged trailers at the Gaston Motel, Birmingham, Alabama (1963)
Martin Luther King and Malcolm X waiting for press conference (1964)
Helmeted state conservation department agents stand on capitol steps and watch 30,000 civil rights demonstrators conduct ceremonies and speeches in front of them (1965)
Composite of four photographs relating to the Civil Rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s (1965)
Today you have a new generation of black people who have come on the scene ... (1969)
Buildings:
Second Presbyterian Church, Pontatoc Avenue & Hernando Street, Memphis, Shelby County, TN
Lincoln Park, Washington, District of Columbia, DC
626-628 North Eutaw Street (Commercial Building), 626-628 North Eutaw Street & 400-412 Druid Hill Av, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
Harmony Street Baptist Church, 527 Forty-Second Place North, Birmingham, Jefferson County, AL
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