Usually classes don't start up again until after Dr. King's birthday, but this year, we are starting back early. It has me all out of sorts. Still, I've been wanting to incorporate more media into the curriculum, and this gives me a good reason to spend some time getting a group research project going. I'm trying to adjust my disposition about not getting as much time between terms. I'm trying to remember how much tougher so many have it than I do. Seeing the old film footage of the civil rights movement reminds me of just how tough things can be. I don't think I posted this here at the Bob Dylan Javalogy blog before...some recent youtube video discoveries:

Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w61QB8_KOue
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. --a visual and sonic essay of his work (very gracefully done).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk
The complete speech that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave at the historic March on Washington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0FiCxZKuv8
Excerpts from the compelling speech that Dr. King gave the day before he was assassinated.

http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Articles_Gen/Letter_Birmingham.html
Dr. King’s Letter from a Birminham Jail.

Photo Credit: FLIP SCHULKE: http://www.time.com/time/photoessays/mlk/