MLK Out Loud

LearnOutLoud.com is very pleased to present this resource of audio and video titles about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Because Dr. King was such a great orator, his ideas are best experienced through the many speeches and sermons he gave throughout his lifetime. His speeches serve as milestones in the civil rights movement, and their passionate cry for social and racial justice is just as relevant today as it was in King's lifetime.

The best collections of Dr. King's speeches and sermons come from Time Warner Audiobooks with their three titles: "A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.", "A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.", and "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.".

To experience Dr. King as a preacher listen to "A Knock at Midnight" which features 8 hours of original recordings of his sermons. For those interested in the history of the civil rights movement, "A Call to Conscience" features original recordings of historical speeches he gave in chronological order from his "The Birth of a New Nation" that ignited the civil rights movement to his "I Have a Dream" speech and finally to his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech delivered the night before his assassination. "The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr." is an audio book assembled from his own writings about his life and it is also interspersed with many original recordings of him speaking.

We feature a few free downloadable speeches delivered by Martin Luther King, Jr. American Rhetoric offers three free speeches of Dr. King's: his "I Have a Dream" speech, his "Beyond Vietnam" speech, and excerpts of his final "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech. American Rhetoric also offers Robert F. Kennedy's "Remarks on the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr." delivered on the day of King's assassination. We also feature a show from the radio program Democracy Now entitled "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968" which features excerpts from three of his speeches.

There are numerous audio book biographies of Dr. King. The most comprehensive biography which also covers the history of the civil rights movement is Taylor Branch's 3-volume history "America in the King Years". The three titles are put out by Simon & Schuster starting with "Parting the Waters" covering 1954-63, then "Pillar of Fire" covering 1963-65, and finally "At Canaan's Edge" which covers the years 1965-68.

For those looking to derive wisdom from King's leadership we feature an abridged and unabridged version of the audio book "Martin Luther King, Jr. on Leadership: Inspiration and Wisdom for Challenging Times".

There have also many documentaries made on Martin Luther King, Jr. and we'd like to mention a few. PBS has produced two documentaries on King: "Citizen King" which explore the last five years of King's life and "In Remembrance of Martin" in which King's family members and friends share personal reflections on Dr. King. For those primarily interested with King's "I Have a Dream" speech there's the documentary "Martin Luther King: I Have a Dream" which covers the 1963 March on Washington and the speech that King gave there.

Along with these titles there are numerous other ones about Dr. King listed below. We hope all these speeches, audio books, and videos will call you to action in the struggle for social justice, racial equality, and nonviolence throughout our world.