The University Libraries invite you to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with related photographs, newspapers and speeches from our Digital Collections. The materials selected provide a look at the ways in which campus and the local area have celebrated this holiday.
From the Brooks Hays Materials
- Prodigal Sons or Prodigal Fathers? speech by Brooks Hays at the National Conference on Citizenship on 1960s cultural change, September 17, 1969.
From Commence and Go Forth – University of Arkansas Commencement Speeches
- Seek Passion and the Spirit of Youth and Service in All You Do commencement speech by Johnnetta Cole, May 12, 2007.
- University of Arkansas Commencement Address by Daniel Schorr, 1976.
From Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas
- Photo: Governor Winthrop Rockefeller Memorializes Martin Luther King, April 1968.
- Photo: Governor Winthrop Rockefeller at Martin Luther King Memorial Service, April 1968.
- Photo: The King is Dead: It’s All Over Now, 1968.
- What Price Freedom? speech by Daisy Bates, 1963.
- Newspaper clipping: African American Students in Marianna Arrested, February 1972.
From The Arkansas Traveler Newspapers
- Dr. Martin Luther King Slain in Memphis, Arkansas Traveler, April 5, 1968.
- Realizing the Dream by Embracing Change: NWA MLK Committee and City Council rename Sixth Street in honor of Martin Luther King, Arkansas Traveler, January 16, 2009.
- UA Celebrates Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Arkansas Traveler, January 19, 2005.
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