HIS 10 - Rights and Freedoms: Civil Rights

The King Center Archive Collection website presents correspondence, personal writings, photographs, and printed material belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, and members of his family. These digitised materials are part of a collection of more than one million items held by the King Center. The collection documents King's central role in the Civil Rights movement, demonstrates the impact of his life and leadership, and represents his efforts to promote nonviolent social change, economic justice and peace.

This link is to the website version of Britannica. Use the database link on the left for access to further content.

This weblink is produced by the History Channel and includes links to articles, videos, pictures and speeches on Martin Luther King Jr.

This biography on Martin Luther King Jr was written at the time of the Nobel Prize Award in 1964.

This weblink by the BBC uses a timeline to address the question of whether Martin Luther King achieved his life's dream.

This weblink produced by BBC is written by Dr Peter J Ling, a senior lecturer in American History from University of Nottingham. Click on Next at the bottom of each page to read all six pages of the article.

The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Desegregation

The story of the Mongomery Bus Boycott

And Malcolm X and Black Power
Race relations in America today