Coinage

Coin redesign advocates have asked that King's image be placed on the penny or dime. The penny will be permanently redesigned in 2010, and the current design will no longer be issued beyond 2008, but Abraham Lincoln will remain on the coin. A group of civil rights activists attempted unsuccessfully in 2000 to place his image on the half dollar. Beforehand, these same people also attempted several times to place King's image on the twenty dollar bill.

Notes

   1. ^ "N.H. becomes last state to honor King with a holiday", The Florida Times Union, June 8, 1999, p. A-4.

References

    * Abernathy, Ralph. And the Walls Came Tumbling Down: An Autobiography. New York : Harper & Row, 1989. ISBN 0060161922

    * Beito, David and Beito, Linda Royster. T.R.M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954 in Glenn E. Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, 2004, 68-95. ISBN 0-8173-5134-5.

    * Branch, Taylor . At Canaan's Edge: America In the King Years, 1965-1968. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2006. ISBN 068485712X

    * Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-1963. New York : Simon & Schuster, 1988. ISBN 0671460978

    * Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-1965.: Simon & Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0684808196

    * Garrow, David J. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. New York : Penguin Books, 1981. ISBN 0140064869

External links

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    * The Seattle Times: Martin Luther King Jr.

    * Winner of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Peace

    * About.com's Lesser Known Wise and Prophetic Words of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

    * Speeches of Martin Luther King

    * Pamphlet on King and Socialism from the Socialist Party USA (PDF)

    * "The MLK you don't see on TV" from FAIR

    * The Martin Luther King Center (German)

    * Black Leaders ... past and present.

    * Works by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Project Gutenberg

    * 1956 Comic Book: "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story"

    * "I Have A Dream" by Martin Luther King, Jr

    * New Georgia Encyclopedia

    * Declassified document, FBI's letter urging him to commit suicide.

    * Dyson, Michael Eric. No Small Dreams: The Radical Evolution of MLK's Last Years. LiP Magazine, January 2003

    * Wise, Tim. Misreading the Dream: The Truth About Martin Luther King Jr. and Affirmative Action. LiP Magazine, January 2003

    * Summary of plagiarism controvery

Video and audio material

    * Internet Archive: The New Negro, King interviewed by J. Waites Waring.

    * RealAudio recording of the "I Have a Dream" speech at the History Channel's site

    * Martin Luther King, Jr. audio and video resource page

    * MP3 and transcript of the "I Have a Dream" speech

    * MP3 of "I've Been to the Mountain top" speech

    * Google Video of "I've Been to the Mountain top" speech