Martin Luther King, Jr. Newspaper Articles Archive

"Newspaper articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. tell the story of an African-American minister whose strong hope for social change never swerved his belief in nonviolence. During the American civil rights movement in the 1950's and 1960's, King encouraged nonviolent methods to protest segregation such as boycotts of city buses that gave preferential treatment to whites, sit-ins at lunch counters that refused to serve African Americans and mass rallies to draw attention to the civil rights cause."

A little late in the day now, I wanted to post this earlier. I don't have many readers yet, because this blog is still new, so I guess I wasn't in much of a hurry because of that, but at least I'm not too late.

Anyway, this is a good site if you want to get a litte ways past current media hype on King, and take a look at what was said about him when he was still alive. You can get search results of articles that open in Adobes' reader, so you'll have to have that