We hope that you will enjoy these great books and movies that examine the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
We also have special programs at our branches in honor of Dr. King, as well as a unique resource from our Queens Memory team.
All Queens Public Library locations will be closed on Monday, January 19 for the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
Queens Memory: Martin Luther King, Jr. at Queens College
Book Picks for Teens and Adults
Queens Memory: Martin Luther King, Jr. at Queens College
Listen to audio clips from the inaugural John F. Kennedy Lecture Series speech given by Martin Luther King, Jr. on May 13, 1965, at Queens College, City University of New York.
Special Programs
Click on the link in each title for more information.
MLK Day Ceramic Peace Doves
Tuesday, January 13, 3pm
North Forest Park Library
98-27 Metropolitan Avenue, Forest Hills
*****
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: PreK and Elementary Storytime and Craft
Thursday, January 15, 4pm
Sunnyside Library
43-06 Greenpoint Avenue, Long Island City
*****
Martin Luther King Jr.: Portrait Making
Thursday, January 15, 4:30pm
South Jamaica Library
108-41 Guy R. Brewer Boulevard, Jamaica
*****
Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Friday, January 16, 3:30pm
Arverne Library
312 Beach 54 Street
*****
Martin Luther King Jr. Day Peace Craft
Friday, January 16, 3:30pm
Richmond Hill Library
118-14 Hillside Avenue
*****
Fun Friday: Martin Luther King, Jr. Activities
Friday, January 16, 4pm
Glen Oaks Library
256-04 Union Turnpike
*****
Martin Luther King Day Storytime and Group Craft
Tuesday, January 20, 4:30pm
East Elmhurst Library
95-06 Astoria Boulevard
*****
Book Picks for Kids
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. (foreword by Coretta Scott King; paintings by fifteen Coretta Scott King Award and Honor Book artists)
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr. (illustrated by Kadir Nelson)
Book | eBook
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. (selected by Coretta Scott King)
Coretta: The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King
by Coretta Scott King, Barbara Reynolds, and Ekua Holmes
Book | Audiobook
A Picture Book of Martin Luther King, Jr. by David A. Adler and Robert Casilla
My First Biography: Martin Luther King, Jr. by Marion Dane Bauer and Jamie Smith
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Voice for Equality! by James Buckley, Jr. and Youneek Studios
Book | eBook
Free at Last! The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Angela Bull
The Cart That Carried Martin by Eve Bunting and Don Tate
Book | eBook
Martin Luther King: the Peaceful Warrior by Ed Clayton and Donald Bermudez
Book | eBook
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968
by Alice Faye Duncan and R. Gregory Christie
Book | eBook
We March by Shane W. Evans
March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
by Christine King Farris and London Ladd
My Brother Martin by Christine King Farris and Chris Soentpiet
Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Melissa Ferguson
Book | eBook
Martin Luther King Jr.: Walking in the Light by Jon M. Fishman
Book | eBook
Social Revolution and Civil Rights by Martin Gitlin
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Josh Gregory
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civil Rights Leader by Grace Hansen
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day by Lisa M. Herrington
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Kitson Jazynka
Book | eBook
Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?: A Who Was? Board Book
by Lisbeth Kaiser and Stanley Chow
My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by Martin Luther King III and AG Ford
Book | Audiobook
We Dream a World: Carrying the Light From My Grandparents Martin Luther King, Jr. and Coretta Scott King
by Yolanda Renee King and Nicole Tadgell
Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day
by Kathlyn J. Kirkwood and Steffi Walthall
Book | eBook | Audiobook
Unstoppable: How Bayard Rustin Organized the 1963 March on Washington
by Michael G. Long and Bea Jackson
1963 March on Washington (Protest! March for Change)
by Joyce Markovicks
Book | eBook
Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King by Jean Marzollo and Brian J. Pinkney
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial: A Stone of Hope by Joanne Mattern
Book | eBook
Young Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" by Joanne Mattern and Allan Eitzen
Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Margaret McNamara and Mike Gordon
I Am Brave: A Little Book about Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos
I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer and Chris Eliopoulos
The Story of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Johnny Ray Moore and Amy Wummer
Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington
by Vaunda Micheaux Nelson and Sally Wern Comport
Martin Rising: Requiem for a King by Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney
Book | Audiobook
Martin's Dream (Ana & Andrew) by Christine Platt and Anuki López
Book | eBook
Martin Luther King Jr.: Fighting for Civil Rights by Christine Platt and David Shepard
Book | eBook
Martin's Big Words by Doreen Rappaport and Bryan Collier
Book | Audiobook
Martin Luther King, Jr. by Lucia Raatma
Martin Luther King...and the Fight for Equality by Sarah Ridley
Coretta Scott by Ntozake Shange and Kadir Nelson
Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Yong Shelton and Raúl Colón
Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Dream and You
by Carole Boston Weatherford and James Ransome
Book | eBook
A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
by Carole Boston Weatherford, Rob Sanders, and Byron McCray
Book | eBook
A Place to Land: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
by Barry Wittenstein and Jerry Pinkney
Book | eBook
Book Picks for Teens and Adults
I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book | eBook
I Have a Dream and Letter from Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings
by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book | eBook | Audiobook
Our God Is Marching On by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book | eBook
Strength to Love by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Stride Toward Freedom by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book | eBook
The Trumpet of Conscience by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book | eBook
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book | eBook | Audiobook
Why We Can't Wait by Martin Luther King, Jr.
Book | eBook | Audiobook
Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Last Interview and Other Conversations
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Companion (selected by Coretta Scott King)
The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr. (selected by Coretta Scott King)
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (edited by Clayborne Carson)
Book | eBook
The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings (eBook)
(edited by Clayborne Carson)
A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons
of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
(edited by Clayborne Carson and Peter Holloran)
Book | eBook | Audiobook
A Call to Conscience: The Landmark Speeches of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
(edited by Clayborne Carson and Kris Shepard)
Book | eBook
A Time to Break Silence: The Essential Works of Martin Luther King, Jr. for Students
(introduction by Walter Dean Myers)
Book | eBook
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches (edited by James Melvin Washington)
I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
(edited by James Melvin Washington)
The Radical King (edited by Cornel West)
Book | eBook
My Life, My Love, My Legacy by Coretta Scott King and Barbara Reynolds
Book | Audiobook
Alabama v. King: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Criminal Trial That Launched
the Civil Rights Movement
by Dan Abrams, Fred D. Gray, and David Fisher
Book | eBook
All You Have to Do by Autumn Allen
Book | eBook
King: A Comics Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (The Complete Edition)
by Ho Che Anderson
Warriors Don't Cry: The Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High
by Melba Pattillo Beals
The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Perspectives on Modern World History)
by Noah Berlatsky
M.L.K.: Journey of a King by Tonya Bolden
The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Valerie Bodden
The King Years by Taylor Branch
A Protest History of the United States by Gloria J. Browne-Marshall
Book | eBook | Audiobook
Burial for a King by Rebecca Burns
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia by Clayborne Carson
Waking from the Dream by David L. Chappell
Book | eBook
Boycotts, Strikes, and Marches: Protests of the Civil Rights Era by Barbara Diggs
April 4, 1968 by Michael Eric Dyson
Book | Audiobook
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
Book | eBook | Audiobook
Living the Dream: The Contested History of Martin Luther King Jr. Day by Daniel T. Fleming
Book | eBook
I See the Promised Land by Arthur Flowers and Manu Chitrakar
An American Death by Gerold Frank
The Life and Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. by James Haskins
Becoming King by Troy Jackson
Letters to Martin: Meditations on Democracy in Black America by Randal Maurice Jelks
Life Magazine: Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr. by Charles Johnson and Bob Adelman
My Time with the Kings by Kathryn Johnson
The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. by Peniel E. Joseph
Nine Days: The Race to Save Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Life and Win the 1960 Election
by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick
You Have to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Begin to Live: Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
by Paul Kix
Book | eBook
Threads of Peace: How Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. Changed the World
by Uma Krishnaswami
Book | eBook
Kennedy and King by Steven Levingston
Book | eBook
March: Book One, Book Two, Book Three, and Trilogy Slipcase Set
by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
by Peter J. Ling and David Deverick
Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March
by Lynda Blackmon Lowery
Book | Audiobook
She Persisted: Coretta Scott King by Kelly Starling Lyons
Book | Audiobook | Español
Today the World Is Watching You: The Little Rock Nine and the Fight for School Integration, 1957 by Kekla Magoon
Book | eBook
And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems by Erica Martin
Book | Audiobook
The Murkin Conspiracy by Philip H. Melanson
Martin Luther King Jr. (Public Profiles) (eBook) by The New York Times Editorial Staff
Resist: How a Century of Young Black Activists Shaped America by Rita Omokha
When Harlem Nearly Killed King by Hugh Pearson
Orders to Kill by William F. Pepper
Killing the Dream by Gerald Posner
Who Killed Martin Luther King? by James Earl Ray
Gospel of Freedom: Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Letter from Birmingham Jail and the Struggle That Changed a Nation
by Jonathan Rieder
Book | eBook
Redemption: Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Last 31 Hours by Joseph Rosenbloom
Exploring Civil Rights: The Movement: 1963 by Angela Shanté
Hellhound on His Trail by Hampton Sides
Book | eBook | Audiobook
King: Pilgrimage to the Mountaintop by Harvard Sitkoff
Death of a King: The Real Story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Year
by Tavis Smiley with David Ritz
Book | eBook
The Heavens Might Crack: The Death and Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. by Jason Sokol
Dear Martin by Nic Stone
Book | Audiobook
Chasing King's Killer by James L. Swanson
Book | Audiobook
Sitting In, Standing Up: Leaders of the Civil Rights Era by Diane C. Taylor
Book | eBook
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let Freedom Ring by Michael Teitelbaum and Lewis Helfand
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A King Family Tribute by Angela Farris Watkins and Andrew Young
Martin Luther King Jr. and the March on Washington by Stephanie Watson
Book | eBook
Killing King: Racial Terrorists, James Earl Ray, and the Plot to Assassinate
Martin Luther King Jr.
by Stuart Wexler and Larry Hancock
Book | eBook
More Than a Dream: The Radical March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
by Yohuru Williams and Michael G. Long
Movie Picks
All links are DVDs unless otherwise specified.
4 Little Girls (1997)
All The Way (2016)
Been to the Mountaintop (2006)
Betty & Coretta (2013)
Boycott (2001, PG)
The Cart That Carried Martin (2013)
DVD | hoopla Kids Streaming
Coretta Scott (2013)
hoopla Kids Streaming | Kanopy Kids Streaming
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Historical Perspective (1994)
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Movement 1954-1985 (1986 & 1990)
Freedom on My Mind (1994)
History Kids: Coretta Scott King and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Legacy (2018)
History Kids: From Selma to Montgomery: Marching with Martin Luther King, Jr. (2016)
History Kids: Martin Luther King, Jr. (2018) (hoopla Streaming)
Holiday Kids: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (2022)
I Am MLK Jr. (2018) (hoopla Streaming)
I Am Not Your Negro (2016, PG-13)
DVD | hoopla Streaming | Kanopy Streaming
In Remembrance of Martin (1986)
King (1978)
King: Man of Peace in a Time of War (2007)
DVD | hoopla Streaming
Lee Daniels' The Butler (2013, PG-13)
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970)
DVD | hoopla Streaming
The March (2013, TV-PG)
March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World (2008)
hoopla Kids Streaming | Kanopy Kids Streaming
Martin's Big Words (2002)
DVD | hoopla Kids Streaming | Kanopy Kids Streaming
Men of Peace: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Nelson Mandela (2009)
Our Friend, Martin (1998)
Roads to Memphis (2010, TV-PG)
Selma (2014, PG-13)
Selma, Lord, Selma (1999, PG)
Who Killed Martin Luther King? (1989)