King papers

PBS tonight aired a documentary titled The Sixties, which has several scenes of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. giving speeches, as well as Jessie Jackson talking about their activities on the evening when Dr. King was assassinated.

This reminded me of the King Papers Project at Stanford University, which has been assembling and publishing King's works. Its goal is to publish a definitive fourteen-volume edition of King's most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts. Five volumes have came out so far, and I saw a few in the bookstore.

The project's website has made some materials available. My guess is that they're putting King's writings online as much as permitted by the law as their work proceeds. I noticed their website several years ago but didn't read it. It should make a great reading if the books are out of your reach.