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Object of the Week for January 11

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice." This image is of Martin Luther King Jr. at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963.

Look Back at Some of MLK's Most Iconic Achievements with Smithsonian Channel

Links

  1. Explore this collection of MLK objects at the Smithsonian
  2. Five little known facts about MLK from the National Museum of African American History and Culture
  3. Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. with National Portrait Gallery
  4. Another groundbreaking person standing at the Lincoln Memorial: Marian Anderson
  5. How Washingtonians have changed DC
  6. This series of works at SAAM features the Lincoln Memorial and other monuments of DC