Featured Online Resource: The King Center Digital Archive

With the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday just around the corner (Monday, January 18), you might be interested in browsing documents related to Dr King which have been digitally archived and made available to the public by the King Center.

Sabudama. Martin Luther King Jr. Center. (CC BY 2.0)

The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change was established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King.  The center is concerned with education and efforts promoting nonviolence and social change.

The center offers a digital archive with documents related to the life of Dr. King. Items in the archive range from programs, texts of speeches, telegrams, note cards, articles, and much more.  Some highlights include:

• Text of MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech.
• A spiral notebook belonging to MLK 
• Handwritten outline of a sermon

This is an excellent place to find primary resources related to Dr. King and the civil rights era.  The site also provides information for those who may have the opportunity to visit the Center in Atlanta, GA.

serves as the premier resource dedicated to educating a global network of allied individuals and organizations working collectively using the philosophy and methods of nonviolence to create the Beloved Community that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned. - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about/mission#sthash.sXiZGCnd.dpuf

serves as the premier resource dedicated to educating a global network of allied individuals and organizations working collectively using the philosophy and methods of nonviolence to create the Beloved Community that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned. - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about/mission#sthash.sXiZGCnd.dpuf

serves as the premier resource dedicated to educating a global network of allied individuals and organizations working collectively using the philosophy and methods of nonviolence to create the Beloved Community that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned. - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about/mission#sthash.sXiZGCnd.dpuf

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about-king-center#sthash.jmKLBYke.dpuf

Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change - See more at: http://thekingcenter.org/about-king-center#sthash.jmKLBYke.dpuf