Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Listen here to the full audio of Martin Luther King, Jr'.s 1963 speech, a defining moment in America's history. (American Rhetoric, 8/28/1963)

In this rare interview, Poet Robert Penn Warren sits down with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to discuss a wide range of topics. Dr. King speaks candidly, in marked contrast to his dramatic speechmaking. (Robert Penn Warren Civil Rights Oral History Project, 3/18/1964)

60 years after the Supreme Court ruled against school segregation in "Brown Vs. Board of Education," we travel to Little Rock, Arkansas, where the ruling has birthed a long line of legal battles stretching across the decades. (Morning Edition, NPR, 1/13/2014)

Listen to President Obama's speech commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington. (White House Audio, 8/13/2013)

Hampton Sides, author of "Hellhound on His Trail," describes the harrowing international manhunt for Dr. King's assassin, James Earl Ray. (Fresh Air, NPR, 1/17/2011)

From economic equality to the Vietnam War, Dr. King spoke on a wide variety of topics outside of the Civil Rights Movement. Listen to excerpts here. (Forum, KQED, 1/10/2010)

Dr. King's "Mountaintop" speech, given on the night of his assassination, inspired the Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia to produce "The Mountaintop," a spiritual imagining of Dr. King's final hours. Listen an excerpt of the famous speech, followed by a short reading done by the show's cast. (Books and Arts Daily, ABC, 11/13/2013)