It’s Thursday, January 11, 2018, and time for Social Sciences at ClickSchooling!
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Age Range: 9-18 (Grades 4-12, with parental supervision)
Learn about the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with the pages of this website.
Use the upper menu to navigate through pages to discover:
- An overview of the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
- A brief biography of Coretta Scott King
- The Archive
- Share your dreams and read the dreams of others.
We found the Archive provides the meat of the website with a searchable thematic database of documents, photos, and more. Browsing themes include:
- Dr. King the Scholar
- Economics
- Global Vision
- Letters from Children
- Nobel Peace Prize
- Notable Sermons
- Political
- Public Opinion
- Recurring Messages
- Telegrams
- Vietnam
- And much more.
Once a topic has been selected, a collage of related items populates on the page. Select an item in the collage to open it and examine it closer. On the left sidebar there is more information about the item. Use the zoom tool on the right to take a closer look, and, if there are more views for an item, use the navigation above the item to move back and forth through the images.
Please note that per the information on the website: “The images in the digital archives are true representations of the items housed in The King Center Archive collection. Nothing has been censored or redacted from the original documents. Search terms and results are a reflection of the content of the images. Images appear that may be disturbing or offensive to a user. User discretion is advised.”
