The King Papers Project produces a comprehensive multi-volume collection of King’s most important correspondence, sermons, publications, speeches, unpublished manuscripts, and other material and makes its significant research efforts available online and in popular books and audios.

The Liberation Curriculum (LC) initiative provides document-based lesson plans and resources and professional development workshops to inform teachers about global efforts to achieve social justice, human rights and liberation through nonviolent means, with special emphasis on the modern African American freedom struggle. (Photo by Matt Herron)

Noted historian John Hope Franklin, a member of the National Advisory board of the King Papers Project/King Institute, died on March 25 at Duke University Hospital in Durham, North Carolina.

This year at the 23rd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday Celebration in San Francisco attendees were asked to answer the question, "What would Dr. King want to say to Barack Obama?" The following quotes are some of the answers we received.

Morehouse College President, Robert M. Franklin, announces the appointment of Clayborne Carson as Martin Luther King, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection. See press conference

King's historic sermon, delivered on 4 February 1968 at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, was to become his own eulogy two months later.

Search here for information on over 1000 civil rights movement figures, events, organizations, and ideas written from King’s perspective.

Read a biographical essay on Martin Luther King, Jr., prepared by King Institute director Clayborne Carson and the Institute staff, extensively cross-referenced with links to the King Online Encyclopedia. (Photo by Bob Fitch)

This volume features the landmark speeches of King's career, spanning from the Montgomery bus boycott to his last speech in Memphis.

King delivers his iconic speech "I Have a Dream" and urges America to "make real the promises of democracy."(Photo credit UPI/Corbis-Bettman)