Martin Luther King Digital Archive Opens to Public

Posted by admin on Jan 17, 2012

The King Center has published 200,000 personal documents belonging to Martin Luther King Jr, as the US marks the civil rights leader’s birthday. The online archive contains personal notes, telegrams to John F Kennedy and a handwritten draft of King’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.

US President Barack Obama and his family marked the day volunteering at a library in Washington DC. King’s memorial is open to the public for the first holiday since it opened.

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