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CIIS resources on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.:

The Oxford African American Studies Center has a wealth of material – biographies, commentary, images, and a wide range of primary sources (including speeches, narratives, legal and political documents) on the African-Americans experience and on the history of Africans in this hemisphere. Search by person, by topic, by type of document, by time period, or by title.

Speeches by Dr. King and other key civil rights activists (text and a-v files) are available from American Rhetoric [link to http://americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm ] Other links to primary and secondary sources on Dr. King can be found in this online encyclopedia entry [link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_luther_king ]; for more in-depth scholarship, see the King Papers Project and other resources at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute [link to http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/].

In addition to the materials on Dr. King on display in the CIIS Library, we also have extensive materials on African-Americans' experience – to locate these, search the Library catalog with the subject: African American . You can further focus the search using and to combine with a keyword of interest.

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