Recommended Read: Letter from Birmingham Jail

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.  We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.  Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.  Never again can we afford to live the with narrow, provincial 'outside agitator' idea.  Anyone who lives in the United States cannot be consider an outsider anywhere within its bounds."

~Excerpt from Letter from Birmingham Jail by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

 "I Have a Dream" Address delivered at the March on Washington

Biography, text from speeches, audio and video, and much more at

Stanford University's King Institute

Book Recommend

Hope you all had a very happy holiday. 

We were all together, ate tons of food (still eating tons of food), made huge messes and had great fun trying on Christmas Jammies

I was up late almost every night this last week and not just because of festivities.

I couldn' put this book down...

image from Amazon.com

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Excellent book. 

It's fiction--the events and people are not real--but it portrays segregation and civil rights during the 1960s in a very human and accurate way.

Pick it up--you'll be glad you did.