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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

This guide includes a variety of resources covering his life, death and work. Also included are resources covering the civil rights movement and the fight for human rights.

Books in Library Collection

At Canaan's Edge by Taylor Branch
ISBN: 068485712X
Publication Date: 2006-01-10
Becoming King by Troy Jackson; Clayborne Carson (Introduction by)
ISBN: 9780813125206
Publication Date: 2008-11-14
Burial for a King by Rebecca Burns
Call Number: 3rd level E185.97.K5 B797 2011
ISBN: 143913054X
Publication Date: 2011-01-04
Children of the Dream by Laurel Holliday
ISBN: 067100803X
Publication Date: 1999-01-01
Dreams and Nightmares by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
Call Number: E 185.97 .K6 W234 2012
ISBN: 9780813037233
Publication Date: 2012-02-05
From Civil Rights to Human Rights by Thomas F. Jackson
ISBN: 0812239695
Publication Date: 2006-12-19
I Have a Dream by James Echols
ISBN: 0800636856
Publication Date: 2004-08-31
I May Not Get There with You by Michael Eric Dyson
ISBN: 0684867761
Publication Date: 2000-01-17
King's Dream by Eric J. Sundquist; Mark Crispin Miller
Call Number: E 185.97 .K5 S864 2009
ISBN: 0300118074
Publication Date: 2009-01-06
M. L. K. by Tonya Bolden; Bob Adelman (Editor)
ISBN: 0810954761
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Martin Luther King by Vincent Harding
ISBN: 9781570757365
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Martin Luther King Jr. by David Colbert
ISBN: 9781416968054
Publication Date: 2008-11-25
Martin Luther King, Jr by Marshall Frady
ISBN: 0670882313
Publication Date: 2002-01-14
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Richard Gallin (Editor); Andrew J. Young (Introduction by); Della Rowland
ISBN: 0382099249
Publication Date: 1990-09-01
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Michael A. Schuman
ISBN: 0894906879
Publication Date: 1996-06-01
Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Freedom Movement by Lillie Patterson; John A. Scott (Editor); Victor Mays (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0816016054
Publication Date: 1989-05-01
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil Rights Leader by Robert Jakoubek
ISBN: 9780717285563
Publication Date: 1989
My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris; Chris K. Soentpiet (Illustrator)
ISBN: 0689843879
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. by Coretta Scott King; Bernice A. King (Introduction by); Dexter Scott King (Introduction by); Yolanda King (Introduction by)
ISBN: 080502445X
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
One Dream or Two? by Nathan Schlueter
ISBN: 0739104691
Publication Date: 2002-12-18
Protest at Selma by David J. Garrow
ISBN: 0300022476
Publication Date: 1978-10-01
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr by Clayborne Carson
ISBN: 0446524123
Publication Date: 1998-11-01
The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jim Haskins; ALC Staff (Editor)
ISBN: 0688116906
Publication Date: 1992-10-21
To the Mountaintop by Stewart Burns
ISBN: 0060542454
Publication Date: 2003-12-23

Additional Books in Library Collection

Dreams and Nightmares by Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson
Call Number: 3rd floor E185.97.K5 W234 2012
ISBN: 9780813037233
Publication Date: 2012-02-05
The Liberatory Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr by Robert E. Birt (Editor)
Call Number: 3rd floor E 185.97 .K5 L47 2012
ISBN: 9780739165522
Publication Date: 2012-09-13
The Last Holiday by Gil Scott Heron
Call Number: 3rd Level PS 3569 .C7 Z46 2012
ISBN: 9780802129017
Publication Date: 2012-01-10
Never to Leave Us Alone by Lewis V. Baldwin
Call Number: 3rd level E 185.97 K5 B349 2010
ISBN: 0800697448
Publication Date: 2010-09-01
Rhetoric, Religion and the Civil Rights Movement 1954-1965 by Davis W. Houck (Editor); David E. Dixon (Editor)
ISBN: 1932792546
Publication Date: 2006-09-08

Electronic Books and Resources

Government Documents

Designate the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., as a legal public holiday : hearing before the Subcommittee on Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, on by Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Call Number: Government Information - 2nd Level North Call Number: Y 4.P 84/10:94-84
Publication Date: 1975
H.R. 2215, Relating to the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday Commission
Call Number: Government Information Microfiche - 2nd Level West Call Number: Y 4.P 84/10:102-26
ISBN: 0160372380
Publication Date: 1992-01-01
Oversight Hearing to Review the Activities of Federal Holiday and Commemorative Commissions
Call Number: Government Information Microfiche - 2nd Level West Call Number: Y 4.P 84/10:103-3
ISBN: 0160416019
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Report of the Department of Justice task force to review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., security and assassination investigations. by Washington : Dept. of Justice
Call Number: Government Information - 2nd Level North Call Number: J 1.2:K 58
Publication Date: 1977

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