If you were to look up Martin Luther King Jr. in the library's Gale Research Database, Biography in Context you would find the following information:
Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. "In the years since his assassination on April 4, 1968, King has evolved from a prominent civil rights leader into the symbol of the civil rights movement in the United States. He is studied by schoolchildren of all backgrounds; his words are quoted by the powerless and the powerful, by anyone who has a dream to make her or his life better, to better the nation, or the world. In 1986, the U.S. Congress made King unique among twentieth-century Americans by designating his birthday a federal holiday. In 2013, the nation commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington led by King."
-Source Citation
"Martin Luther King, Jr." Contemporary Black Biography. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1992. Biography in Context. Web. 15 Jan. 2015.
For more information check out the library's display at the circulation desk containing the following titles:
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