January Virtual Display #1: Martin Luther King Jr. Day

A black and white image of MLK adressing a croud. He is on the left side of the image facing the camera, waving out to the crowd around him

Clark College student library worker Rebekah Semrau assisted in the creation of this post.

Monday, January 18th is Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Clark College will be closed on this day. While the library will not be open, we have created this virtual display to provide information about the history of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and recognize the legacy of Dr. King. Clark College’s celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day will be held over Zoom on January 20th, more information can be found here.

Follow the links below to check out some ebooks, videos, articles, and other digital resources. To access ebooks click the link next to “Get It Now At:” and sign in with your lab username and password. Some may have a link at the top of the page that says “Check for full text” instead. Non-Clark Libraries resources do not require a Clark Labs account.

eBooks from Clark College Libraries

The cover of The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North. There is an image of MLK and his wife above the title, and an image of Black people marching below.

The Chicago Freedom Movement: Martin Luther King Jr. and Civil Rights Activism in the North by Mary Lou Finley, Bernard LaFayette Jr, James R. Ralph Jr, & Pam Smith

The cover of Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature. It is a plain tan cover with the title on it.

Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature by Trudier Harris

The cover of From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice. There is a black and white image of MLK looking off to the left under the title.

From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson

The cover of Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers. There are images of the men listed in the title across the top, with black text on a red background underneath.

Dangerous Friendship: Stanley Levison, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Kennedy Brothers by Ben Kamin

The cover of Ring Out Freedom!: The Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement. There is an image of MLK addressing a crowd with the Washington Monument in the background.

Ring Out Freedom! The Voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of the Civil Rights Movement by Fredrik Sunnemark

The cover of Misremembering Dr. King: Revisiting the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. There is an image of a statue of MLK on the right side of the cover.

Misremembering Dr. King: Revisiting the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. by Jennifer J. Yanco

Other Resources

Articles

How the Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday Became a Holiday

“The fight to make the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday a holiday took 32 years, a lot of campaigning, and guest appearances including Stevie Wonder, Ted Kennedy, and the National Football League.”

It’s MLK Day, Not Robert E. Lee Day

“In a way, these overlapping holidays are a summation of the South’s deep-rooted ties to both a history of racism and the forefront of the civil rights movement.”

Martin Luther King Jr. Day: 9 Ways to Honor His Legacy

“Nevertheless, King’s legacy endures, and in a moment of national racial reckoning, the holiday offers a timely opportunity to help it onward, through action and contemplation. Marches and parades, the typical forms of remembrance, are mostly on pause this year. But New Yorkers can commemorate King’s achievements with an assortment of events, including a few in-person and kid-friendly options.”

MLK’s March on Washington Speech Foretold This Seismic Moment

“Fifty-seven years after the March On Washington, America finds itself less at a crossroads than at a place with a chance for a new beginning. The opportunity to engage in the reparative work that King outlined in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial will take the work of generations but must be done. The vision that King sketched that Wednesday afternoon in the nation’s capital echoes in our own time, amplified by tens of millions of voices in America and around the world who stress the fierce urgency of our own time. ”