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BASIC MLK RESOURCES FILMS At the River I Stand. Directed by David Appleby, Allison Graham, and Steven John Ross. Produced by Memphis State University. Published by California Newsreel. One hour long. “This moving documentary recounts the two months leading to Martin Luther King Jr.’s death in 1968, coinciding with the 65-day strike of 1300 Memphis sanitation workers.” King: A Filmed Record…Montgomery to Memphis Parts 1 and 2. Directed by Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Commonwealth United Entertainment, 1970, VHS can be purchased from the King Center – Atlanta, GA. Price $10.00 Boycott, Directed by Clark Johnson, Home Box Office Video, 2001. “This groundbreaking film chronicles the 1955-56 Montgomery Bus Boycott, which ushered in the modern-day Civil Rights movement – and introduced the world to a man named Martin Luther King Jr.” For more information see: www.hbo.com Eyes On The Prize Series, Directed by Henry Hampton, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2006, 20th Anniversary Edition for purchase for $375 “Henry Hampton’s award-winning documentary on the civil rights movement spotlights the events of 1954 to 1985-from the fearless resolve of one woman…to the unified voices of thousands marching…through the movement’s split into factions. First-person accounts illuminate America’s struggle for racial equality.” For more information see: www.pbs.org Citizen King, Directed by Orlando Bagwell, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 2004. “American Experience presents Citizen King, a two-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmakers Orlando Bagwell (Africans in America, Malcolm X: Make It Plain) and Noland Walker (This Far by Faith, Africans in America). Citizen King explores the last five years in King’s life by drawing on the personal recollections and eyewitness accounts of friends, movement associates, journalists, law enforcement officers, and historians, to illuminate this little-known chapter in the story of America’s most important and influential moral leader.” For more information see: www.pbs.org SPEECHES/LETTERS/ARTICLES/WEB SITES Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence (Martin Luther King Jr. at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967)- www.edchange.org Catching Up With Martin, Grace Lee Boggs, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York, September 29, 2006 Letter from Birmingham Jail - Martin Luther King Jr., April 16, 1963 - www.blackcommentator.com The Martin Luther King You Don’t See on TV by Jeff Cohen and Norman Soloman, published by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, January 4, 1995 -www.fair.org Exceptional Martin Luther King Jr. quotations and speech excerpts: www.quietspaces.com BOOKS An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King, by William F. Pepper, published by Verso Press, 2003. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 by Taylor Branch, published by Simon and Schuster, 2006. At the River I Stand by Joan Turner Beifuss, published by Brooklyn: Carlson, 1989. Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference by David Garrow, published by Harper Perennial, 1999. (We recommend in particular chapters 1 (The Montgomery Bus Boycott), 8 (Chicago and the ‘War on Slums’) 10 (Economic Justice and Vietnam) and 11 (The Poor People’s Campaign and Memphis) Coretta: The Story of Coretta Scott King by Octavia Vivian, published by Fortress Press, 2006. Martin and Malcolm in America: A Dream or A Nightmare by James H. Cone, published by Orbis Books, 1992. Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero by Vincent Harding, published by Orbis Books, 1996. I May Not Get There with You: The True Martin Luther King Jr. by Michael Eric Dyson, published by Free Press, 2001. A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King Jr., by Martin Luther King Jr, edited by James Washington, published by Harper San Francisco, 1990. Trumpet of Conscience by Martin Luther King Jr., published by Harper Collins, 1989. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King Jr. published by Beacon Press, 1968.
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