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| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Martin_Luther_King_Jr. |
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| Martin Luther King | |||||||
| Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. | |||||||
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| Speeches, movements, and protests |
Speeches | "Give Us the Ballot" (1957) • "I Have a Dream" (1963) • "How Long, Not Long" (1965) • "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" (1967) • "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968) |
| Writings | Stride Toward Freedom (1958) • "What Is Man?" (1959) • "Second Emancipation Proclamation" • Strength to Love (1963) • "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) • Why We Can't Wait (1964) • Conscience for Change (1967) • Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967) | |
| Movements and protests |
Montgomery bus boycott (1955-1956) • Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957) • Albany Movement (1961-1962) • Birmingham campaign (1963) • March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963) • St. Augustine movement (1963-1964) • Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) • Chicago Freedom Movement (1966) • Mississippi March Against Fear (1966) • Anti-Vietnam War movement (1967) • Memphis sanitation strike (1968) • Poor People's Campaign (1968) | |
| People | Family | Coretta Scott King (wife) • Yolanda King (daughter) • Martin Luther King III (son) • Dexter King (son) • Bernice King (daughter) • Martin Luther King Sr. (father) • Alberta Williams King (mother) • Christine King Farris (sister) • A. D. King (brother) • James Albert King (grandfather) • Alveda King (niece) |
| Other leaders |
Ralph Abernathy (mentor, colleague) • Ella Baker (colleague) • James Bevel (strategist / colleague) • Dorothy Cotton (colleague) • Jesse Jackson (protégé) • Bernard Lafayette (colleague) • James Lawson (colleague) • John Lewis (colleague) • Joseph Lowery (colleague) • Benjamin Mays (mentor) • Diane Nash (colleague) • James Orange (colleague) • Bayard Rustin (advisor) • Fred Shuttlesworth (colleague) • C. T. Vivian (colleague) • Wyatt Walker (colleague) • Hosea Williams (colleague) • Andrew Young (colleague) | |
| Assassination | Lorraine Motel (now National Civil Rights Museum) • Riots • Funeral • James Earl Ray • Jack Kershaw • U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) • Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act • Loyd Jowers • Trial • Conspiracy theories | |
| Media | Film | King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970 documentary) • Our Friend, Martin (1999 animated) • Boycott (2001 film) • The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 (2008 documentary) • Selma (2014 film) • All the Way (2016 film) • King in the Wilderness (2018 documentary) |
| Television | King (1978 miniseries) • "The First Store" (The Jeffersons, 1980) • "Great X-Pectations" (A Different World, 1993) • "The Promised Land" (New York Undercover, 1997) • "Return of the King" (The Boondocks, 2006) • Alpha Man: The Brotherhood of MLK (2011 documentary) • Genius | |
| Plays | The Meeting (1987) • The Mountaintop (2009) • I Dream (2010) • All the Way (2012) | |
| Illustrated | Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (1957 comic book) | |
| Music | "Abraham, Martin and John" (Dion) • "March! For Martin Luther King" (John Fahey) • "Martin Luther King's Dream" (Strawbs) • "Happy Birthday" (Stevie Wonder) • "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (U2) • "MLK" (U2) • "King Holiday" (King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew) • "By the Time I Get to Arizona" (Public Enemy) • "Shed a Little Light" (James Taylor) • "Up to the Mountain" (Patti Griffin) • "Never Alone Martin" (Jason Upton) • "Symphony of Brotherhood" (Miri Ben-Ari) • Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King (1995 album) • "A Dream" (Common featuring will.i.am) • "Glory" (Common and John Legend) | |
| Related | Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. | |
| Related topics | Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) • Martin Luther King Jr. Day • passage • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial • National Historical Park • King Center for Nonviolent Social Change • Dexter Avenue Baptist Church • National Civil Rights Museum • Big Six • Authorship issues • FBI-King suicide letter • Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity • Season for Nonviolence • U.S. Capitol Rotunda sculpture • Oval Office bust • Homage to King sculpture, Atlanta • Statues of Martin Luther King Jr. • Atlanta • Denver • Houston • Milwaukee • Pueblo, CO • Mexico City • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, San Francisco • Landmark for Peace Memorial, Indianapolis • The Dream sculpture, Portland, Oregon • Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. • Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose • Memorials to Martin Luther King Jr. • King County, Washington • Eponymous streets • America in the King Years • Civil rights movement in popular culture • Lee-Jackson-King Day • High schools named after King • Schools in France named after King | |
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