Martin Luther King

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Lesson Plans:

Critical Thinking: I have a Dream Speech - The lesson has individual sections divided into vocabulary development, rhetorical structures (figures of speech), understanding the speech, relating to the speech, and an optional opportunity for students to record the speech

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Evaluating Web Sites for Bias - In this activity, pairs of students visit two Web sites about Martin Luther King Jr. and evaluate the content and credibility. Students use a checklist that will guide them as they consider the sponsor of each Web site, the validity of the information presented, evidence of bias, and so on

Primary Source Documents:

Martin Luther King Jr. - Words that Changed a Nation - CNN Special Report -- Thousands of primary source documents collected from the papers of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by the Woodruff Library for Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. This collection helps explore King's philosophy, goals and even his fears as he and those around him created a revolution.


Martin Luther King Research and Education Institute - The King Papers Project's principal mission is to publish a definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. The published volumes of The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., have already influenced scholarship and become essential reference works.

Audio, Video and Full Text of MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech

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MLK Biography
I Have a Dream Speech