The speech « I have a dream » : full transcript and audio
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/Ihaveadream.htm
http://www.hpol.org/transcript.php?id=72
For advanced students, audio and script of a report entitled : « King Holiday Considered ‘Mixed Blessing’ By Some Historians »
http://voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2005-01-14-voa25.cfm
Pages designed by teachers to present MLK and Black history or civil rights
– Académie de Paris : http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/civilrights.php
– Académie de Nancy-metz : http://www.ac-nancy-metz.fr/enseign/anglais/civius.htm (see MLK)
– infonews : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/infonews/themes/MLK.htm (sorry, I can’t update the page at the moment, but see MLK bio…)
Special reports from TV and magazines
– Civil Rights: http://www.civilrights.org/campaigns/mlk/index.html
( an excellent and easy timeline and the making of the holiday)
– Seattle Times : http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/classroom/MLKplan.html
(a special report with ideas for the class and links)
– PBS : http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/mlk/ and http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aaworld/timeline/civil_01.html (a timeline including music…)
– Time : http://www.time.com/time/reports/blackhistory/index.html (with lots of pictures from Life magazine)
– Encyclopedia Britannica : http://search.eb.com/blackhistory/study/index_eb.htm (interesting study guide for advanced students, with videos and audio documents)
– Stanford University : http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/classroom/MLKplan.html or http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/
Quizzes and treasure hunts
– http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/mlkth.php
(for intermediates, to discover)
– http://lve.scola.ac-paris.fr/anglais/MLK/mlkbio.htm
(for lower intermediates, to check what they have understood)
– http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/bh_hunt_quiz.html
(for upper intermediate, difficult but to learn from)
– http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/king/quiz.html
(for upper intermediate, and to learn from)
– http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/king-sw.htm
(a flash game for intermediate, to beat time…)