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King Institute Projects
The King Papers Project produces a comprehensive multi-volume collection of King’s most important correspondence, sermons, publications, speeches, unpublished manuscripts, and other material and makes its significant research efforts available online and in popular books and audios.
The Liberation Curriculum (LC) initiative provides document-based lesson plans and resources and professional development workshops to inform teachers about global efforts to achieve social justice, human rights and liberation through nonviolent means, with special emphasis on the modern African American freedom struggle. (Photo by Matt Herron)
King Institute News
October 04, 2012
Genevieve Hughes Houghton, a participant in the original CORE Freedom Ride, passed away Tuesday, 2 October 2012. She was 80.
May 11, 2012
Nicholas deBelleville Katzenbach, Deputy Attorney General under Robert Kennedy and Attorney General for President Lyndon Baines Johnson, died Tuesday, 8 May. He was 90.
February 14, 2012
A "living monument" to her family, "that Stephen's girl" to her critics as a young woman, and prominent fixture in the civil rights movement in Florida, Patricia Stephans Due passed away on February 7, in Smyrna, Georgia. She was 72.
January 17, 2012
Reacting to southern racial violence, Dr. King, C. K. Steele, and Fred L. Shuttlesworth issued an “urgent plea” for a two day conference of southern black leaders to be held at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King’s father was pastor.
See Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Montgomery Improvement Association Press Release
Southern Christian Leadership Conference "Statement to the South and the Nation"
January 06, 2012
Find out about 2012 King Holiday events occurring on campus and in the local area!
January 06, 2012
The King Holiday Celebration will take place 3 pm - 5 pm at Tresidder Memorial Union, 459 Lagunita Drive, on the Stanford campus.
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This Month in the Movement
On October 19, 1960, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested along with fifty student protesters while conducting a sit-in demonstration at the segregated Magnolia Tea Room located in Rich's department store in Atlanta, Georgia. The Magnolia Tea Room demonstration was part of a city-wide series of sit-in protests that resulted in the arrests of some 280 students throughout Atlanta. After his arrest King refused to post bond and stated that he would serve his time if convicted. The charges against him were dropped on October 25, 1960.
Read the statement King prepared for his arraignment the afternoon of his arrest. Click here to read a letter prepared by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee urging fellow students to voice their support for King and the sit-in protesters to local politicians. King Resources
Search here for information on over 1000 civil rights movement figures, events and organizations; a chronology of the movement, and full-text documents published online.
The Online King Records Access (OKRA) database provides easily searchable access to information on thousands of speeches, sermons, letters, and other historic documents by and about Martin Luther King, Jr.!
Updated weekly on Tuesdays, the Featured Document of the Week series highlights particular King documents that we've annotated. Check here and on Facebook weekly for updates!
Visit the King Resources area of our site for resources including:
• Our short biography of King and King's autobiography • King's speeches and sermons • Montgomery Bus Boycott • March on Washington • Letter From Birmingham Jail • Chronology of King's Life 
Read a biographical essay on Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared by King Institute director Clayborne Carson and the Institute staff, extensively cross-referenced with links to the King Online Encyclopedia.
King delivers his iconic speech "I Have a Dream" and urges America to "make real the promises of democracy."(Photo credit UPI/Corbis-Bettman)
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