Speeches

Yesterday, I noted the Martin Luther King, Jr Archive has released digital copies of many of Dr King's papers. Do we have access to his speeches through any GALILEO databases which offer a 'speech' search limiter?

Academic Search Complete was my first choice.
To get to the 'speech' limiter, you need to select Advanced Search.
Martin Luther King was my general search term. There are a lot of speeches about Dr. King given on Dr. King's holiday. I wasn't finding any speeches by Dr. King. A sort by relevance, date ascending (oldest first) showed only articles back to 1971.

A search with Martin Luther King as the author of a speech turned up zero results in both Academic Search Complete and ProQuest.

GALILEO provides a link to the Digital Library of Georgia . A search for Martin Luther King provided a subject box on the left with Martin Luther King 1929-1968 (Contributor). There are 53 television clips starting in 1957 and ending in 1967. These are sound bites from television news. They do offer another look at this Civil Rights leader.

No complete speeches by Dr. King in my brief look at three resources in GALILEO. The Martin Luther King, Jr Archive is the place to go for a complete look at what Dr. King had to say.

-kss