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Neer, Katherine. "In Honor of Martin Luther King Jr.." 16 January 2004. HowStuffWorks.com. <http://people.howstuffworks.com/mlk-jr.htm> 13 May 2008.

by Katherine Neer

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Introduction to In Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Dream

Resonant Events

The Movement

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http://www.dcpreservation.org/endangered/2003/mlklibrary.html

http://northup.house.gov/News.asp?FormMode=detail&ID=131

http://www.indianpost.com/viewstamp.php/Color/Raw%20Sienna/DR.%20MARTIN%20LUTHER%20KING%20JR

http://thekingcenter.com/tkc/index.asp

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=96

Books

From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans, Volume Two, Eighth Edition, John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr.
From Plantation to Ghetto, Third Edition, August Meier and Elliot Rudwick
The Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Edited by William L. Andrews, Frances Smith Foster, & Trudier Harris
Living Our Stories, Telling Our Truths: Autobiography and the Making of the African-American Intellectual Tradition, V.P. Franklin

Further Dr. King's legacy by making community service a way of life. Please visit the King Center's Web site to find a service opportunity in your neighborhood: www.thekingcenter.org.

*Permission granted by Intellectual Properties Management, Atlanta, Georgia, as manager of the King Estate.