Today in Georgia History
October 14, 1964
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Suggested Readings
Taylor B. Branch, At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 (New York:
Simon and Schuster, 2006).
Clayborne Carson, ed., The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (New York:
Warner Books, 1998).
Michael Eric Dyson, I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr.
(New York: Free Press, 2000).
John A. Kirk, Martin Luther King Jr.: Profiles in Power (New York: Longman, 2004).
Laura T. McCarty, Coretta Scott King: A Biography (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio,
2009).
“Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968).” New Georgia
Encyclopedia. http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-1009&sug=y
Image Credits
October 14, 1964: Martin Luther King, Jr. Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Civil rights march on Washington DC
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-04297
Court order halting Selma march, 1960s
Image courtesy of the Auburn Avenue Research Library, AJY005
Demonstrators in front of the White House after death of MLK
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ds-00841
Dexter Avenue Church
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-highsm-05750
Dr. and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-116775
Martin Luther King, Jr. and party in Grand Hotel, Oslo, Norway, just before he was awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize, 1964
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Ebenezer Baptist Church, 1975
Image courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, VIS 71.248.09
Martin Luther King, Jr. with Andrew Young
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Marker of Montgomery Bus Boycott
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Martin Luther King, Jr., Coretta Scott King, Ralph Abernathy, 1965
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Martin Luther King Jr. funeral march
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Receiving Nobel Prize
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Martin Luther King, Jr. birth home on Auburn Ave
Image courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, VIS 101.698.001
Martin Luther King, Jr. funeral procession down Auburn Ave, 1968
Image courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, VIS 719650
Martin Luther King, Jr. in Montgomery, 1960s
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Martin Luther King, Jr. receiving doctoral hooding at commencement ceremony at Boston University
Image courtesy of the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, box 137, folder 3
Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking to an audience in a church in Birmingham, Alabama
Image courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Q20684
Martin Luther King, Jr., c1960
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Martin Luther King, Sr. in front of Ebenezer Baptist Church
Image courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, VIS 071.416.001
Portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference Convention, c1973
Boyd Lewis photographs
Image courtesy of the Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center, VIS 101.525.025