why oh why is there no citied text from a newspaper???????

Thanks for the information on a great human being, of profound historical importance.

Another great resource for researching historical newspaper archives is this site at XooxleAnswers:

http://xooxleanswers.com/newspaperarchives4.aspx
Free Newspaper Archives

There are a ton of great links here, all of them to online newspaper and magazine archives that go back at least 50 years.  Some of them go back to the 17th century! 

Best of all, everything listed here is free.  There is no charge to access any of the archives listed at this site. 

Most of the material is from the US, and is in English, but there are also many international listings, and non-English listings (French, German, Polish, Hebrew, even Maori!), from both the US and elsewhere.

Definitely worth checking out!

My favorite speech of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.s is the I Have A Dream speech.

My favorite speech of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. is the I Have A Dream speech

I never knew MLK was an adulterer. I respect the man for his leadership and for pursuing his cause through anti-violent means, but I’m surprised there has never been more uproar about his private life.  I guess nobody is perfect, but the image of MLK that I have received through the media and history books never once mentioned any inadequacies in terms of his social morals.  Interesting to note. This is a great website and it does a solid job of uncovering truths that some may feel uncomfortable learning about.

Martin Luther King. Jr was a man of great vision and a man with the greatest dream with a great dream of all. That we all shall join hands of all colors and all nations as one. “ I have a dream” has ringed in ever ear from one generation to the next, and I believe it shall ring forever. His faith became power; his power became faith that made change come about, that affected everyone that believed in the dream of change. Better schools, better jobs, and a better way of life. Not just for one, but for everyone who tries in life. A man of great belief added a forever change. MLK Jr. is the greatest, because it takes a man of great belief to stand against all odds of life and to believe in peace no matter what he believe that society should except one another as the same not black or white, because of this Earth, we come, so shall we return, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, no man is greater that the next
So to this day, January 15 is of the life for Dr MLK Jr. If at no time during the 365 days of the year we are at odds in life, and color, for equality may today “peace be still “ in your dream.

Without reacting to some of the earlier base remarks, MLK suffered from 2 things: his vision and his ability to overshadow all those that stood next to this giant of a man.

Anyone who can listen to his speeches and not be physically- be it tears or clenched fists held back in peace- moved is a sad example of a human being.

He was, and is, a giant among all the giants and his words ring as true today as they did when he spoke them.

He must have made it to the mountain-top.  Only those that have not even crawled from the depth of the swamp cannot realize he knew that what he was doing was going to get him killed- yet, he knew it was righteous.

No false religion.  No false compassion.  No empty words.  No blind eyes.  No vacant soul.  With him, it was real.  So real that he risked all.

In loving memory for a man who stood for all of us- regardless of the color of our skin or the cost to him personally.

I checked out a book on tape at my library on Dr. King’s speeches. Some of the quality was poor because of the equiptment used, but he was mesmerizing.  He should be heard, as well as read. We could sure use him here today.

MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com tells the story of Dr. King through historic newspaper articles

NewspaperARCHIVE.com has released http://www.MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com, a free newspaper archive of 50,000 newspapers pages from around the country that contain articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. The site includes original stories about the Montgomery bus boycott, the “I Have A Dream” speech, details about King’s assassination on April 4, 1968, along with thousands of other headlines regarding Dr. King from various newspapers across the country.

With the use of Adobe Reader and Optical Character Recognition technology, students and researchers can quickly obtain historical articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. by searching with key words or dates. For example, to obtain articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was involved in the Montgomery bus boycott, users of the site can just enter key words “bus boycott” in the exact phrase field on the advanced search page. If a researcher is looking for articles written on the day of King’s Assassination, they can search under “April 4, 1968”.

“MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com was designed to give students an opportunity to read original articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. from the time period in which the events happened,” said Jeff Kiley, Director of Sales and Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com. “It is an exceptional learning tool as the articles give a first hand account of many of the challenges Martin Luther King, Jr. faced in the 1950’s and 1960’s during the civil rights movement.”

Along with the newspaper archive, the website contains a brief timeline of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s life that is told through newspaper accounts. For example, the timeline reads on September 18, 1964, that Dr. King met with Pope Paul VI. Users of the site can then read an article from September 19, 1964, about King’s meeting with the pope.

“The website is simple enough for a student to use for a school report, yet it’s just as valuable for a veteran researcher looking to confirm a specific fact,” said Matt Reinhart, graphic designer for the site.

Researchers interested in finding more information about Martin Luther King, Jr. can also go to NewspaperARCHIVE.com where there are 100,461 newspaper pages about Dr. King. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest newspaper database available online, is owned by Heritage Microfilm and began in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1999.

It is a shame that King’s Martyrdom has virtually obliterated the memory of a number of heroes of the anti-segregation movement such as Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, and The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) who organized the initial Freedom Rides, (that King and his group just ‘appropriated’) and individuals like Eldrich Cleaver, for one that so few black children (forget white children having ever heard of SNCC, CORE or Cleaver) ...
History is always more digestible when it is re-written for us into small bland bites ... isn’t it?

thruthdig.com,

My class of fifth graders had been studying, discussing, and listening to the history of the US during the civil rights period 1954-1968. They have been fascinated and shocked by the conditions of our country then, and the efforts of one M.L. King Jr and his leadership and character in helping change these conditions. They have stated they know more than just ‘I Have a Dream’ and he was assassinated. I have shared with them more about civil rights and ML King than any other class, and they have grasped more than any other class. Their stature as young people and young minds has growth tremendously in just these last few weeks, as did our country during those few years. I intend to share with them some of the archive video you have here, Selma to Montgomery, portions of The New Negro with ML and Judge Waring, and the letter from the FBI. The kids will find these significant and inspiring, but mostly ‘the truth’ because that’s what they want and deserve, ‘the truth’. 
Thank you.

It’s all on how you spin it. I’m taking my kids out of school next month so they won’t be subjected to the lies about how great MLK was.

Thank you for this post. The “Beyond Vietnam” speech mp3 is something that I think I everyone should hear. I’ve also think that Dr. King’s “Why I am opposed to the war in Vietnam” speech is equally powerful. Dr. King’s words resonate with our present situation. His words need to be heard.