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Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday, January 21, 2008 Celebrate the Book with Penrose Library! Selected videorecordings are listed at the bottom of this document Abernathy, Donzaleigh Partners to history: Martin E185.61 .A165 2003 Luther King, Jr., Ralph David Abernathy, and the Civil Rights Movement Anderson, Ho Che KING: A Comics Biography of E185.61 .A547 2005 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ansbro, John J. Martin Luther King, Jr.: The E185.97.K5 A 79 1982 Making of a Mind Baldwin, Lewis V. There is a Balm in Gilead: The E185.97.K5 B35 1991 Cultural roots of Martin Luther King, Jr. To Make the Wounded Whole: E185.97.K5 B353 1992 The Cultural Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Legacy Of Martin Luther E185.97.K5 L35 2002 King, Jr.: The Boundaries of Law, Politics, and Religion Blessed are the Peacemakers: Martin Luther King Jr., Eight White Religious leaders, and the “Letter from Birmingham Bass, S. Jonathan Jail” F334.B69 N415 2001 At the River I Stand: Memphis, The 1968 Strike, and Martin HD5325.S2572 1968 .M46 Beifuss, Joan Turner Luther King 1989 Bobbitt, David A. The Rhetoric of Redemption E185.97.K5 B58 2004 Parting the Waters: America in E185.61 .B7914 1988 the King Years 1954-63 Pillar of Fire: America in the Branch, Taylor King Years 1963-65 E185.61 .B7915 1998 Burns, Stewart To The Mountain Top E185.97.K5 B798 2004 Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Sermonic Power of Public Calloway-Thomas, Carolyn Discourse E185.97.K5 M32 1993 Carson, Clayborne A Call To Conscience E185.97.K5 A5 2002 Chassman, Gary In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. NX652.K56 C4 2002 Echols, James I Have a Dream E185.97.K5 I17 2004 Fisher, William Harvey Free at last : a bibliography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Z8464.44 F57 Frank, Gerold An American Death: The True E185.97.K5 F7 Story of the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Greatest Manhunt of Our Time Friedly, Michael Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI File E185.97.K5 G35 1993 Garrett, George The King of Babylon Shall Not Come Against You PS3557.A72 K5 1996 Garrow, David J. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. E185.97.K5 G37 1983 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement F334.B69 N417 1989 Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights JK1929.A2 G37 Act of 1965 The Walking City: The Montgomery Bus Boycott, F334.M79 N48 1989 1955-1956 Hanigan, James P. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Foundations of Nonviolence E185.97.K5 H27 1984 Hansen, Drew D. The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation E185.97.K5 H273 2003 Harding, Vincent Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero E185.97.K5 H275 1996 Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther HD5325.S2572 1968 M465 Honey, Michael K. King’s Last Campaign 2007 From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackson, Thomas F. and the Struggle for Economic E185.97.K5 J34 2007 Justice King: The Photobiography of Johnson, Charles Martin Luther King, Jr. E185.97.K5 J57 2000 Oversize Johnston, William King PS3560 .O3867 K56 King, Coretta Scott My Life with Martin Luther King, Jr. E185.97.K5 K5 I Have a Dream: Writings and E185.97.K5 A25 1992 Speeches that Changed the World BT703 .K5 1968 The Measure of a Man King, Jr., Martin Luther BX6452 .K5 Strength to Love Stride Toward Freedom: The E185.89.T8 K5 1964 Montgomery Story E185.97 K5 1968 The Trumpet of Conscience E185.61 .K54 2000 Why We Can’t Wait E185.615 .K5 1968B Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.: The Power of King, Mary Nonviolent Action HM278 .K56 1999 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the E185.97.K5 M325 2007 Civil Rights Movement Kirk, John A. Martin Luther King, Jr.: Profiles E185.97.K5 K575 2005 in Power Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King Jr., and the Laws That Kotz, Nick Changed America E847.2 .K67 2005 Lentz, Richard Symbols, The News Magazines, E185.97.K5 L43 1990 and Martin Luther King Lewis, David L. King: A Biography E185.97.K5.L45 1978 Lincoln, C. Eric Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Profile E185.97 K5 L5 Ling, Peter J. Martin Luther King, Jr. E185.97.K5 L55 2002 The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word Lischer, Richard That Moved America BV4208.U6 L57 1995 Against Us, But for Us: Martin Long, Michael G. Luther King, Jr. and the State E185.97.K5 L625 2002 The Murkin Conspiracy: An Investigation into the Assassination of Dr. Martin Melanson, Philip H. Luther King, Jr. E185.97.K5 M39 1989 Miller, Keith D. Voice of Deliverance: The E185.97.K5M49 1992 language of Martin Luther King, Jr. and its Sources Moldovan, Russel Martin Luther King, Jr.: An Oral E185.97.K5 M57 1999 History of His Religious Witness and His Life Moses, Greg Revolution of Conscience: E185.97.K5 M65 1997 Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Philosophy of Nonviolence The Negro Heritage Library A Martin Luther King Treasury E185.61 K535 Oversize Oates, Stephen B. Let The Trumpet Sound: The E185.97.K5 O18 1982 Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. Pearson, Hugh when harlem nearly killed King: E185.97.K5 P42 2002 The 1958 stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Pepper, William F. Orders to Kill: The Truth E185.97.K5 P43 1995 Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King An Act of State: The Execution E185.97.K5 P45 2003 of Martin Luther King, Jr. Phillips, Donald T. Martin Luther King, Jr. On E185.97.K5 P46 2000 Leadership: Inspiration & Wisdom For Challenging Times Posner, Gerald Killing the Dream: James Earl E185.97.K5 P67 1998 Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Northern Protest: Martin Luther King, Jr., Chicago, and the Civil Ralph, James R., Jr. Rights Movement F548.9.N4 R35 1993 Schlueter, Nathan W. One Dream or Two? Justice in E185.97.K5 S35 2002 America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. Schulke, Flip He Had A Dream: Martin Luther E185.97.K5 S37 1995 Oversize King, Jr., and the Civil Rights Movement King Remembered E185.97.K5 S38 1986 Smith, Ervin The Ethics of Martin Luther E185.97.K5 S57 King, Jr. Stetson, Jeff The Meeting: A One Act Play PS3569.T4344 M4 1990 Sunnemark, Fredrik Ring Out Freedom! The Voice E185.97.K5 S866 2004 of Martin Luther King Jr. And the Making of the Civil Rights Movement Tweedle, John A Lasting Impression: A E185.97.K5 T94 1983 Oversize Collection of Photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr. United States. Congress. Designate the Birthday of Y 4.P 84/10:94-84 House. Committee on Post Martin Luther King, Jr., as a Office and Civil Service. Legal Public Holiday : Hearing Subcommittee on Census and before the Subcommittee on Population. Census and Population of the Committee on Post Office and Civil Service, House of Representatives, Ninety-fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 1810 ... September 10, 1975 United States. Congress. Investigation of the Y 4.As 7:K 58/ v. 1-13 House. Select Committee on Assassination of Martin Luther Assassinations. King, Jr. : Hearings before the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session United States. Congress. Compilation of the Statements Y 4.As 7:R 21 House. Select Committee on of James Earl Ray : Staff Assassinations. Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, second session, August 18, 1978 United States of America. The James Earl Ray Extradition KF224.R35 L44 Department of State File: Papers Submitted to Great Britain for the Extradition of James Earl Ray to Face Trial for the Murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. Walton Jr, Haness The Political Philosophy of E185.97.K5 W27 Martin Luther King, Jr. Ward, Brian The Making of Martin Luther E185.97.K5 M255 1996 King and the Civil Rights Movement Weisberg, Harold Frame-Up: The Martin Luther KF224.R35 W4 King / James Earl Ray Case; Containing Suppressed Evidence Westin, Alan F. The Trial of Martin Luther KF224.K56 W48 King Williams, John A. The King God Didn’t Save E185.97.K5 W5 1970 Williams, Clarence G. Reflections of the Dream: 1975- E185.97.K5 R44 1996 1994 Of Kennedys and Kings: E841 .W56 1980 Wofford, Harris Making Sense of the Sixties The Social Vision of Martin E185.97.K5 Z47 1989 Zepp, Ira G., Jr. Luther King, Jr. VIDEORECORDINGS Ask for videorecordings at the Penrose Library Circulation Desk (Unless they are in Special Collections) Bagwell, Orlando Citizen King [videorecording E185.97.K5 C58 2004 DVD Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Birmingham [videorecording] : Special Collections VIDEO the world is watching CASSETTE SP128 Birmingham Civil Rights Institute The March [videorecording] Special Collections VIDEO CASSETTE SP427 Kaplan, Richard Legacy of a Dream VIDEO CASSETTE 1353 [videorecording] Martin Luther King, Jr. King, Montgomery to VIDEO CASSETTE 2656 Foundation Memphis [videorecording] Olin, Chuck Great Americans, Martin VIDEO CASSETTE 2682 Luther King, Jr [videorecording] .
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