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a multimedia site that tells the story of the 101-year-old organization and documents the civil-rights movement in general through words, pictures, and video.

Fifty years ago, on April 4, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated . In the decades since, his name has become synonymous with the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Five decades after the passing of King, his wisdom, his words, and his compassion are needed now more than ever. Let's recall this great man's nuggets of wisdom and some of the most inspiring and insightful quotes which we have taken from King's speeches, sermons and essays.

CRDL is a partnership among librarians, technologists, archivists, educators, scholars, academic publishers, and public broadcasters. The initiative receives support through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.