Honoring the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King

Born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister, civil-rights activist, and an advocate for race relations in the United States. 

Through King's activism and inspirational speeches, he played an essential role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the U.S., as well as spurring the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. 

King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. King was assassinated in April 1968 and continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and inspirational African-American leaders in history.

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Free Textbooks from the Library

With the rising costs of textbooks many students are choosing to do without them. The Library has developed five pathways to offering students free textbooks.

1. Subscription eBooks (already in the Library catalog).
2. Special request purchased eBooks
3. Subscription articles from Library databases in a password protected eReserve LibGuide
4. Scanned chapters in an eReserve LibGuide (Library can scan 10% of books it owns)
5. The Public Domain and Open Licensing (OER)

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The American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection

The database contains more than 6,500 historical periodical titles in five series dating from 1693 to 1877.

Titles include "The Boston Medical & Surgical Journal," "Ploughshare, Godey’s Lady’s Book," and "The Regenerator," an anti-slavery periodical. Subjects include slavery, agriculture, children's literature, education, leisure and hobbies, medicine, religion, science and technology, the trades, and women's literature.

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