Martin Luther King digital archive opens to public (BBC)
The King Center has published 200,000 personal documents belonging to Martin Luther King Jr, as the US marks the civil rights leader's birthday.
The online archive contains personal notes, telegrams to John F Kennedy and a handwritten draft of King's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
US President Barack Obama and his family marked the day volunteering at a library in Washington DC.
King's memorial is open to the public for the first holiday since it opened.
The documents, which had been kept at the King Center in Atlanta, include scraps of paper with sermons and letters written from prison, as well as hate mail addressed to King, calling African-Americans "savages".
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more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-16585984
access the archive: http://www.thekingcenter.org/archive
(It might be a little busy today ! )
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And thanks for posting! 
I visited the King Center about 10 years ago and they were struggling mightily. I am glad the materials have been digitized and made available for scholars and lay alike (if I recall correctly, BU had hoarded alot of the materials as part of their collection)... I expect that some might groan at the sponsor of the digital archive (per the site - JP Morgan Chase).
