Relevant Web Sites

Music, Performers, and the Arts

• "A King Celebration" on NPR's Performance Today is made possible by the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation www.woodruff-arts.org and the NEA.
  
• Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, debuted in 1945 and is one of the youngest American orchestras to achieve prominence in the last quarter-century, www.atlantasymphony.org.
  
• Ebenezer Baptist Church, the home of Dr. King's ministry and the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement, www.ebenezer.org.
  
• Morehouse College, Dr. King graduated from this historically black, private, liberal arts college for men. Morehouse's Glee Club will be performing at this year's "A King Celebration Concert" www.morehouse.edu.
  
• Spelman College, the Glee Club of this top rated women's college will be performing at this year's "A King Celebration Concert," www.spelman.edu.
  
• National Black Arts Festival, brings to the stage a full spectrum of artistic disciplines from dance, music and literature to film, drama and the visual arts, www.nbaf.org.

  Educational & Research

• The King Center, a research, educational and training center dedicated to promoting Dr. King's work and his philosophy of nonviolence, www.thekingcenter.com.
  
• Mississippi State University, maintains a historical archive of Dr. King's speeches and letters, www.msstate.edu.
  
• MLK Jr. Parade Foundation, Inc., works to educate the nation to the economic, social and moral values of strength through diversity, http://home.earthlink.net/~marijon/Home.html.
  
• The National Park Service, offers guided tours of the home where Dr. King grew up, www.nps.gov/malu/index.html.

Essays

• NPR Senior Producer Ben Roe elaborates on the importance of music in celebrating the King holiday.

Books

The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Making of a Mind by John J. Ansboro
  
• Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 by Taylor Branch
  
• King: A Biography by David L. Lewis
  
• Voice of Deliverance: The Language of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Keith D. Miller
  
• A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King. Jr., James M. Washington, ed.

  Black Music in America

• The Black Composer Speaks, by David Baker et al
  
• America's Black Musical Heritage, by Tilford Brooks
  
• We Shall Overcome, by Guy and Candance Dcarawan
  
• Black Music In Our Culture and Bibliography of Black Music, by Dominique-Rene DeLerma
  
• Black Women Composers: A Genisis, by Mildred Denby Green
  
• The Music of Black Americans: A History, by Eileen Southern

  Children's Reading

• Jazz, by Langston Hughes
  
• Jazz: My Music, My People, by Morgan Monceaux
  
• Thank You, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.! by Eleanora E. Tate