Some MLK Reading Choices

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The Libraries has a huge variety of materials available on Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., ranging from his own writings to biographical, historical and even artistic studies. Great reading material for this national holiday.—Elizabeth Periale

Strength to love, Martin Luther King, Jr., Philadelphia : Fortress Press, 1981, c1963.

Martin Luther King, Jr.: the making of a mind, John J. Ansbro, Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, c1982.

What manner of man; a biography of Martin Luther King, Jr., Bennett, Lerone, with an introd. by Benjamin E. Mays, Chicago, Johnson Pub. Co., 1964.

Parting the waters: America in the King years, 1954-1963, Taylor Branch, New York : Simon and Schuster, c1988.

The Martin Luther King, Jr., encyclopedia, Clayborne Carson … [et al.] ; with the assistance of the King Research and Education Institute, Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2008.

A Martin Luther King treasury, Photos. by Roland Mitchell, Yonkers, N.Y., Educational Heritage [1964].