Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: The Man Who Changed America
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service (Official Government Site) http://mlkday.gov/about/serveonkingday.php
Remarks on Signing the King Holiday and Service Act of 1994, President William J. Clinton, The American Presidency Project, August 23, 1994 http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=49010
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr. http://www.thekingcenter.org/
National Park Service: Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site http://www.nps.gov/malu/index.htm
NG Video: Martin Luther King, Jr. Remembered http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/history-kids/mlk-day-vin-kids/
The Nobel Peace Prize 1964: Martin Luther King Jr. http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Speech (I Have A Dream) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V57lotnKGF8
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial http://www.nps.gov/mlkm/index.htm
The American Corner offers a selection of books about Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement which you can check out and celebrate Martin Luther King Day:
1. Mary Hull
Rosa Parks: Civil Rights Leader
http://books.google.hr/books/about/Rosa_Parks.html?id=jWkMAAAACAAJ&redir_esc=y
2. Doreen Rappaport
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/doreen-rappaport/martins-big-words
* Awards include National Council of Teachers of English, Orbis Pictus Honor Book, Caldecott Honor Book, Coretta
Scott King Honor Book, ALA Notable Children’s Book, New York Public Library 100 Best
Books, Blue Ribbon list, Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books, Children’s Choice,
Children’s Book Council in conjunction with the IRA
3. David J. Garrow
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
http://books.google.hr/books/about/Bearing_the_Cross.html?id=QNmxL6qpZZgC&redir_esc=y
* Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most
comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
4. Angela Shelf Medearis
Dare to Dream:Coretta Scott King
http://books.google.hr/books/about/Dare_to_Dream.html?id=6jcOlwEACAAJ&redir_esc=y
NPR, Coretta Scott King's Legacy, 2006 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5180228
5. Lisa Aldred
Thurgood Marshall: Supreme Court Justice
http://books.google.hr/books/about/Thurgood_Marshall.html?id=uGjhAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
6. Gilbert King
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
* The 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction
http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2013-General-Nonfiction
