Martin Luther King Jr. and Poverty Issues

MLK day this year (and a brief talk I had to give my 1L Property students) inspired me to put together some material on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the economic justice/poverty work that he did.  My powerpoint can be found here: MLK [Rosser].  There are of course countless articles on MLK, but below are some that are closely related to this blog:

• Susan R. Jones, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Legacy: An Economic Justice Imperative, 19 Wash. U. J.L. & Pol’y 39 (2005).
• Randall Kennedy, Martin Luther King’s Constitution: A Legal History of the Montgomery Bus Boycotts, 98 Yale L.J. 999 (1989).
• Charles Martel, Are Americans Good Samaritans? How Martin Luther King’s Example Can Empower America’s Humanitarian Majority, 9 Scholar 213 (2007).

But the best resource I found was the King Papers Project which is interesting and a lot of fun to explore, as is the helpful King Institute Encyclopedia.    For those who want to spend a lot more time on it, the Taylor Branch Trilogy is awesome (so far — I’m only a few hundred pages into the 2nd book).