Where to find Martin Luther King information and speeches?

January 17, 2005 7:20 AM

ihaveadream.com is a sleazy search engine. mlk.com seems to be a German concert hall conglomerate. martinlutherking.com redirects to "clubpink.com" (er, I assume NSFW). thekingcenter.com cannot be found. Ah.... here it is. No, wait, that's all about his kinky sex parties and plagiarism.

Where's all the good stuff?
posted by Caviar to writing & language (14 comments total)

The Stanford MLK Jr. Papers Project.
posted by gramcracker at 7:22 AM on January 17, 2005

Here: thekingcenter.org.

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posted by NoMich at 7:30 AM on January 17, 2005

On preview, NoMich posted the one I was going to recommend. Let me give this WARNING instead: Don't go to the white power website masquerading as an MLK info site at martinlutherking.org.
posted by planetkyoto at 7:32 AM on January 17, 2005

Aaahhh, you already linked to it, from Metafilter. I'm sure they thank you.
posted by planetkyoto at 7:38 AM on January 17, 2005

The domain name system isnt supposed to do anything but make life a little easier on humans because words are easier to memorize than numbers. Guessing at URLs and getting something you dont approve of or dont like is not a problem. The problem is to search the web you should be using software that can perform accurate searches, like a search engine.

First link from google

http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/

second link from google

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/mlk/

Third link from google

http://thekingcenter.com/

Fourth link from google

http://www.nps.gov/malu/

etc
posted by skallas at 7:57 AM on January 17, 2005

People are going to find them - they're already in the top four links for "martin luther king" on google. Interestingly, they don't appear in the first hundred links of the same query on Yahoo, so I guess they've been filtered there.

Isn't it better to link to them and discredit them? (Maybe this belongs on Metatalk.)
posted by Caviar at 8:04 AM on January 17, 2005

>they're already in the top four links for "martin luther king" on google.

My first search was martin luther king jr

I just tried it without the jr and got the exact same results. I am not getting:

ihaveadream.com, mlk.com, or martinlutherking.com

Check your machine for spyware.
posted by skallas at 8:14 AM on January 17, 2005

Self Link - I am hosting MLK's I Have A Dream speech for the day (16 megs - mp3) - it is still copyrighted by the King family, so I will pull it at the end of the day.
posted by plemeljr at 9:00 AM on January 17, 2005

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posted by kirkaracha at 9:34 AM on January 17, 2005

Interesting that the spam and porn sites are still operative, as King's estate is very litigious over the use of his identity. See, e.g., Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change, Inc. v. American Heritage Products, Inc., 296 S.E.2d 697 (Ga. 1982).
posted by Saucy Intruder at 11:07 AM on January 17, 2005

skallas, that remark about the top 4 google links was specifically in reference to martinlutherking.org. I didn't mean to imply that the others were also showing up there.
posted by Caviar at 11:49 AM on January 17, 2005

they're already in the top four links for "martin luther king" on google.

Only if you have Safesearch off, otherwise it doesn't even show up amongst the top 50 sites returned.
posted by Goedel at 2:09 PM on January 17, 2005

America Must Reclaim King from Soundbite Purgatory
posted by muckster at 5:06 PM on January 17, 2005

In order to use Safesearch, I'd have to let them keep a persistent cookie. Now why would I do that?

Also, if Safesearch is on, why would it show up at all?
posted by Caviar at 7:02 AM on January 18, 2005