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When viewing images from our past we are often overcome with a desire to experience historical events firsthand. A thorough study of history using primary and secondary sources can help us “experience” past events that have long since passed us by.
A primary source is typically created by the historical group or person we are interested in. These are sources that require some analysis on our part; they free us to form our own opinions. A secondary source is a source that contains analysis by another person based on the primary source. The benefit of secondary sources is that they illuminate the documents we are interested in by exposing us to different viewpoints.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one individual who we are fortunate to have a large selection of material for research.The majority of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. analysis is derived from a wealth of primary source materials such as original writings, government documents, and radio and film footage.
Part of the mission of the Cleveland Public Library is to maintain a collection that provides a well rounded view of past and present events through the use of primary and secondary sources. Listed below are materials related to Martin Luther King Jr. Similar documents covering our full range of subject areas can be found in every department at the Cleveland Public Main Library.
PRIMARY SOURCES:
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson.
Been to the Mountaintop. [video recording]
A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
CBC Massey Lecture 1967 Conscience for Change. [sound recording]
The FBI’s complete main (Headquarters) file on Martin Luther King Jr. 16,000 pages, 121 parts, in 12 zip files. [off-site]
Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (PDF). December 10, 1964. [off-site]
The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson et al.
Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., Security and Assassination Investigations. [Washington]: The Task Force.
SECONDARY SOURCES:
April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Death and How it Changed America by Michael Eric Dyson.
Becoming King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Making of a National Leader by Troy Jackson.
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch.
From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice by Thomas F. Jackson.
Judgment Days: Lyndon Baines Johnson, Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Laws that Changed America by Nick Kotz.
King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: a Biography by Roger Bruns.
Martin Luther King Jr., visits to Cleveland. Encyclopedia of Cleveland History [off-site]
To the Mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Sacred Mission to Save America, 1955-1968 by Stewart Burns.
Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.: His Life and Crusade in Pictures by Charles Johnson.
Truth at Last : the Untold Story Behind James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by John Larry Ray.
Image source: Cleveland Public Library Photograph Collection
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