Letter from Birmingham Jail: Resources

This is one of the most comprehensive resources on MLK out there.

Another good resource, though it's not as slick as Stanford's site.

An easy-to-use reference for studying Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement, made by the King Institute at Stanford University.

This 2014 movie dramatizes the March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

A fourteen-hour television documentary series from PBS that chronicles the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1985. It's worth every hour.

This 1989 Best-Picture winner dramatized exactly what MLK was talking about when he expressed disappointment with "moderate" whites. Miss Daisy's an elderly lady who supports civil rights in theory and even goes to hear Dr. King speak when he comes to Atlanta. But she won't give her African American chauffeur and friend her extra ticket to the speech because she doesn't want to be seen sitting with him.

Robert Penn Warren was a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who interviewed Dr. King in 1964.

In 1960, Dr. King appeared on NBC's Meet the Press. Too bad Terry Gross was too young to get the opportunity to interview him. That would've been awesome.

You've heard about it a million times. Now you can watch it a million times. Thanks, YouTube.

"Our Friend, Martin" is a sometimes cheesy (okay, it's cheesy to the max) animated movie about a group of time travelling school kids who learn about the life and times of Dr. King.

In 1967, Dr. King made an appearance on the Merv Griffin Show. It was a way to get the message out, we guess.

This was Dr. King's last speech, in which he seemed to predicted his own death the next day.

One year before his death, Dr. King gave this major speech in opposition to the Vietnam War.

Here's the mug shot of MLK prior to his being sent to the Birmingham Jail.

One of the classic portraits of Dr. King.

Dr. King waving to the crowd at the Washington Memorial.

Stanford's King Institute has an archive of all sorts of documents, including Dr. King's speech notes. Marvel at the ancient communication device known as the telegram. Admire Dr. King's atrocious handwriting. Ooooh… aaaahhh…

As just one example of the kinds of attacks Dr. King and his colleagues were faced with, this is a picture of the effects of a bombing of a building near where Dr. King was staying.

Here's a lovely photo of some of the terror Connor's policies unleashed on the Black citizens of Birmingham.

The sadly famous photo of King's assassination in 1968, with is stunned friends pointing in the direction of the shots.