Humanities Teaching and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection at Morehouse College

FAIN: AB-226792-15

Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA 30314-3776)
Vicki Lynn Crawford (Project Director: June 2014 to April 2018)

A series of activities to incorporate primary documents from the Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection into humanities teaching.

The Morehouse College Martin Luther King Jr. Collection provides an unparalleled intellectual resource in teaching across the humanities. Containing approximately 13, 000 original items belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and housed in the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, the collection offers a rich pedagogical tool for deep teaching and learning with primary source materials. This proposal comprises four components: 1) curriculum enhancement; 2) college-museum partnership; 3) digital resource development initiative; 4) public programming. A major element of the project entails deepening and expanding humanities instruction through the study and use of primary documents from the Morehouse College King Collection. Core faculty participants will develop project-based instructional modules to enhance courses in history, English, African-American Studies and Philosophy. The college-museum partnership will engage both faculty and museum educators.

Media Coverage

King's Writings Live on in Morehouse Collection (Media Coverage)
Publication: Atlanta Journal Constitution
Date: 1/21/2016
Abstract: A featured newspaper article highlighting the ten-year anniversary of the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection and its current initiatives to bring King's ideas and philosophy to a current generation.

(Media Coverage)
Date: 3/28/2018

Associated Products

Presentation (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Presentation
Author: Dr. Vicki Crawford
Abstract: A presentation to be delivered to the John Lewis Fellows affiliated with the international organization, Humanity in Action, a global network of university students and young professionals committed to promoting human rights, diversity and active citizenship. Dr. Crawford's presentation is on the Relevancy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the 21st Century."
Date: 07/13/2016
Conference Name: Humanity in Action

Conference Paper (Conference Paper/Presentation)
Title: Conference Paper
Author: Dr. Vicki Crawford
Abstract: Dr. Crawford will deliver a paper presentation on "Exploring Social Justice Through Southern Archives," with particular focus on the current teaching, research and scholarship underway in the Morehouse College Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection. She will also discuss the research opportunities available through the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Papers housed at Emory University.
Date: 08/05/2015
Conference Name: 2016 Society of American Archivists (SAA)

In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Globalization of an Ethical Ideal (Book)
Title: In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Globalization of an Ethical Ideal
Editor: Lewis Baldwin and Paul Dekar with Foreword by Vicki Crawford
Abstract: The scholarship on Martin Luther King, Jr. has too often cast him in the image of the Southern black preacher while paying little attention to King's global connections and significance. This groundbreaking work addresses this pattern of neglect in King's studies.Contributors to the volume explore thematic topics related to King's global leadership and the various international issues that he engaged with during his lifetime.
Year: 2017
Publisher: Cascade Books

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