Primary Sources
This primary source is a newspaper article reporting the death of Martin Luther King as he was assassinated. It is the front-page cover of Greensboro Daily News, printed on the 5th of April 1968 written by reporter Earl Cardwell
This is a primary source letter from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee to Martin Luther King requesting his support to join together and stop the racial segregation and the belief that they together can end the segregation by using principles of non-violent direct action.
This flyer is a primary source which, was distributed to sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, asking them to "March for Justice and Jobs."pripr
This source is a flyer distributed in Memphis and Tennessee, requesting volunteer assistance in 1968.
The American Negro Emancipation Centennial issued this 1964 postcard containing Dr. King's brief biography which was used as a study guide in Negro history.
Louise Dekker-Brus
congratulates Dr. King on the Nobel Peace Prize and writes that their newspaper
says that, in King, America has its Joan of Arc. This postcard was sent on
November 23rd 1964.
A primary news article source, on the aftermath after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. from the Aberdeen American-News, published on 5 April 1968.
Written Sources:
The Archive | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. 2015. The Archive | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
Martin Luther King Jr Archive - A Complete Trivia of MLK Jr. 2015. Martin Luther King Jr Archive - A Complete Trivia of MLK Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. | Who Speaks for the Negro?. 2015. Martin Luther King Jr. | Who Speaks for the Negro?.
The Archive | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. 2015. The Archive | The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change.
Martin Luther King Jr Archive - A Complete Trivia of MLK Jr. 2015. Martin Luther King Jr Archive - A Complete Trivia of MLK Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. | Who Speaks for the Negro?. 2015. Martin Luther King Jr. | Who Speaks for the Negro?.