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Links to Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement

Seattle Times: Martin Luther King

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/

In addition to a biography, speeches, photos and a chronology on the civil rights movement, the content offered by the Seattle Times on Martin Luther King includes a great number of texts on King's importance and his legacy (link "The Legacy"). The link to the "Interactive Classroom" is also interesting and presents different online school projects about Martin Luther King. This section includes essays from students as well as ready-to-use materials for lessons.

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The Martin Luther King Center

http://www.thekingcenter.com/

The King Center in Atlanta was founded in 1968 by King's wife, Coretta Scott King, who was also active in the civil rights movement. In addition to providing comprehensive information on him and her, it also allows visitors to purchase devotional objects on King in an online shop.

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The MLK project at Stanford University offers an impressive collection of documents (speeches, quotes, preaches) by Martin Luther King. This is also a well-designed and technically mature website that includes an excellent interactive chronology on the life and work of this Nobel Prize Laureate (under the "chronology" link on the website).

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Background information on the civil rights movement

http://www.wmich.edu/politics/mlk/

This website from Western Michigan University offers background information on the most important events during the American civil rights movement. It is dedicated to Martin Luther King, the most important figure in this movement.

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The Montgomery bus boycott

http://socsci.colorado.edu/~jonesem/montgomery.html

This site by the University of Colorado at Boulder is dedicated to the trigger for the civil rights movement: The Montgomery bus boycott in Alabama. In addition to plenty of other information such as the role played by Rosa Parks (left) - on whom further information and links can be found at: http://www.edc.org/WomensEquity/women/parks.htm - the website provides ready-to-use materials for the classroom on the subject.

This fascinating non-violent campaign led by Martin Luther King is also a part of this website on a special page: Montgomery bus boycott.

"I didn't want to just look on, I wanted to be there in the midst of the action, where things are decided."

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