Martin Luther King Jr.'s Notes, Papers Debut Online
A large and comprehensive collection of Martin Luther King Jr.'s documents is now available online.
The collection, consisting of nearly a million documents, will be available at The King Center Imagine Project. You can find them here.
There are letters and telegrams that show correspondence between King and the likes of John F. Kennedy, Judge Thurgood Marshall, and Sammy Davis Jr., to name a few.
In one of the letters, King asks President Kennedy to select William Hastie or Thurgood Marshall as a Supreme Court judge.
"Both men are imminently qualified to fill vacancy," he wrote. "This is superb opportunity for the administration to reveal to the world its serious determination to make the Negro a full participant in every phase of American life."
Kennedy selected Judge Byron White, but Marshall was later chosen as a Supreme Court Justice under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s Notes, Papers Debut Online
Claudio E. Cabrera
Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:09:00 GMT
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