Martin Luther King, Jr.

Here's a great place to start your research on King from Stanford University.

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?

Here is a link to an excerpt from "I Have a Dream" in RealAudio. 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, according to King, is the purpose of education? Do you agree?

Want to hear more of King's work? Here is a page with lots of links to King in RealAudio.

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.

Here's a photo of Rosa Parks being fingerprinted for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, AL in 1956. Describe the photo in as much detail as you can. Why do you think this is such a famous photo?