Martin Luther King Day is Jan. 15 this year. Here are some resources related to this great American hero.
Ebooks:
“I’ve Been to the Mountaintop” speech
Letters from the Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Anthology
(This includes a variety of essays from various figures in African American history.)
Collection of MLK speeches
(These are HTML and PDFs, so you’ll need to convert them with Plucker or Adobe Reader mobile.)
Audio recordings:
“Remembering Martin Luther King”
(an editorial from VOA)
Self-Suffice & Furyus
(contemporary rap poetry remix tribute to MLK; lots of food for thought in this one)
Images:
(Creative Commons-licensed; suitable for use in student projects)
Other resources relating to African-American history are also available here.