Sunday, January 18, 2009

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The library is closed today, Monday, January 19th, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.

Read more about his life and legacy at the sites below:

The King Center

Birth Home / National Park Service

Nobel Peace Prize 1964

MLK National Memorial

MLK Day of Service

Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute

Writer, celebrated wit, and member of the Algonquin Round Table Dorothy Parker never met Martin Luther King, Jr., but she believed in civil rights and the work he was doing and left her literary estate to him upon her death in 1967. After Martin Luther King was assassinated, the rights to her literary estate were transferred to the NAACP. Read more here.

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