Annotated Bibliography: Martin Luther King Jr.

Primary Sources:

"About Dr. King." The Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change. The King Center, 1968. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

Washington, Booker T. "Civil Rights & Black Identity." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, Mar. 2006. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

Staff, By Seattle Times. "Martin Luther King Jr: An Extraordinary Life." The Seattle Times. The Seattle Times, 2016. Web. 25 Oct. 2016.

Secondary Sources:

"Martin Luther King, Jr, Civil Rights Movement : Youth For Human Rights Champion." Martin Luther King, Jr, Civil Rights Movement : Youth For Human Rights Champion. United For Human Rights, n.d. Web. 26 Oct. 2016.

Historical Context, Protest context.

MLK Jr, Civil Rights Movement is written by the Youth For Human Rights Campaign. Their purpose/thesis is to inform those who want to know about MLK and what he is all about. On their site, they give background information on him and also give brief information on what protests he was involved. They give a general sense of his role during the Civil Rights Movement. The audience intended is people globally.

Schulke, Flip. "About Dr. King." The King Center. JP Morgan Chase & Co, 2014. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.

Community/Identity, Historical Context

About Dr. King, is written and published by The King Center/Flip Schulke. The author’s purpose/thesis here is to provide historical context on MLK and the civil rights movement. Schulke explains the sense of community associated with all the protests MLK directed and leaded. He explains how MLK serves as a voice/image for African Americans and provides them with their own identity.

Kindig, Jessie. "Selma, Alabama, (Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed." Selma, Alabama, (Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965) | The Black Past: Remembered and Reclaimed. By The Numbers, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

Protest Context, Historical Context

Bloody Sunday (1965) took place in Selma, Alabama. It was an event led by MLK to make Selma’s intransigence to black voting a national concern. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) assisted MLK as well and they both hoped to use the momentum of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to win federal protection for a voting rights statute. It is both a protest context and a historical context because the author provides information on a specific peaceful protest led by MLK himself. We get to witness MLK in action.

 Banton, Amy. "Man Reflects on MLK's Influence." McClatchy - Tribune Business NewsJan 20 2014. ProQuest. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

Serious News Article

Amy Blanton of the McClatchy - Tribune Business News (Washington) wrote this article to display the effectiveness of MLK and the huge influence he still has today. She interviews Charlie S. Daniel and asks him why/how has MLK really influenced him. He goes on to say how King was a leader. As a young man, Daniel wanted to see change with how Blacks were treated and he too wanted to basically be like MLK. King not only influenced him, but inspired him to take a stand. Daniel specifically says “I wanted to see his (MLK) dream come true”.

Harris, Trudier. Martin Luther King Jr., Heroism, and African American Literature. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2014. Ebook Library. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

Theoretical Source, Historical Context, Community/Identity

Trudier Harris book is all about MLK, his heroism, and african american literature. Harris’s shows why MLK is one of the most revered figures in American history. Harris states "His heroism, argues Harris, is informed by African American folk cultural perceptions of heroes. Brer Rabbit, John the Slave, Stackolee, and Railroad Bill folk heroes all provide a folk lens through which to view King in contemporary literature. Ambiguities and issues of morality that surround trickster figures also surround King”. This not only provides the readers with background info on MLK, but it also informs people about his legacy.

Cleveland, Christina. "Local Researcher, Historian Remembers MLK's Legacy and Influence in South Carolina." TCA Regional NewsJan 18 2016. ProQuest. Web. 28 Oct. 2016 .

Historical Context, Community/Identity

Author Christina Cleveland's article explains a historian remembering MLK’s legacy and influence in South Carolina. This serves as historical because we get insight of how MLK was from a valid historian’s perspective. Somebody that actually experienced life with MLK and the impact he made. Wayne O’Bryant, a historian and researcher in North Augusta, admits even as a small child, he was aware of what was going on in his community during a racially tense time in the South and U.S. There was always talk around his dinner table, he said, and his family was active in the civil rights movement.

"Dr. King's Historical Call to Leadership: The Montgomery Bus Boycott Thrust MLK into International Prominence." Sacramento Observer: 9. Jan 24 1996. ProQuest. Web. 28 Oct. 2016 .

Protest Context

The Sacramento Observer gives us the insider of The Montgomery Bus Boycott lead by Martin Luther King Jr. From the courthouse, Mrs. Parks called E.D. Nixon, who came down and signed a bond for her. Following Mrs. Parks' arrest, the Women's Political Action Council of Montgomery suggested a one-day boycott of the buses as protest, and the fiery E.D. Nixon courageously agreed to organize it. It was Dr. King's view that "religion that deals with both heaven and earth..." any religion that professes to be concerned with the souls of men and is not concerned with the slums that doom them the economic conditions that strangle them and social conditions that cripple them, is a dry-as-dust religion.

"Birmingham Campaign (1963)." Birmingham Campaign (1963). The King Center, n.d. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

Protest Context

The King Center tells us everything we need to know about The Birmingham Campaign (1963) led by Dr. King himself. There is no real thesis for this by the publisher. It basically tells us what the Campaign was, what happened, and states the people involved. In April 1963 King and the SCLC joined with Birmingham, Alabama’s existing local movement, the ACMHR in a massive direct action campaign to attack the city’s segregation system by putting pressure on Birmingham’s merchants during the Easter season, the second biggest shopping season of the year. As ACMHR founder Fred Shuttlesworth stated in the group’s ‘‘Birmingham Manifesto,’’ the campaign was ‘‘a moral witness to give our community a chance to survive’’ (ACMHR, 3 April 1963).

Washington, Booker T. "Civil Rights & Black Identity." The Atlantic. Atlantic Media Company, Mar. 2006. Web. 28 Oct. 2016.

Community/Identity

Washington and The Atlantic explain to readers in their article of MLK’s legacy and how much of an impact he had on african americans in general. They explain how MLK was a beacon of hope and change. They go on to say how without Martin Luther King Jr, there wouldn’t be freedom at all within today’s society. Washington explains how MLK brought African Americans (community) together and served as a voice/image/and identity for Black people.

Williams, Johnny E.. African American Religion and the Civil Rights Movement in Arkansas. Jackson, US: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.

Community/Identity

This book written by Johnny Williams and published by the University of Mississippi, gives us readers an insight into the African American Civil Rights. Specifically into Arkansas, the first two chapters show the African American community and their lifestyle. How they were treated, how they acted, what they were about, how life was basically back then for them during this period of time. This is beneficial information for anyone trying to understand the Black community and their identity back then and provides additional information on the Civil Rights Movement aimed at African Americans specifically.

Petit, Sophie. "Children March to Mark 'I have a Dream' Speech." The Washington Post: PGE.18. Sep 05 2013. ProQuest. Web. 28 Oct. 2016 .

Protest Context, Community

Sophie Petit's article gives us the impact of MLK and his "I Have A Dream Speech". In this article, students at Avalon Elementary School is Washington reenact their own Civil Rights march for freedom. Not only is the "I Have A Dream" speech an act of peaceful protest within itself but it also brings people together for a greater/more powerful cause other than themselves. It is truly power and inspiring to see how much of an impact and influence MLK had on the Civil Rights Movement back then and still even today.