Gordon Library

Click to view information and links to many interesting digital collections.

Visit the library foyer to see a display on various digital collections featuring many black leaders. Some of the sites featured include:

• Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Biographical Sketch - Louisiana State University Libraries
• Martin Luther King, Jr. papers, Online at the King Center
• Morehouse College King Collection
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Collection at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center at Boston University
• The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University
• Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection - read news about abolitionist, William Still was involved in the underground railroad and authored a book by that name. Temple University is digitizing the papers of Still, which includes letters and photographs and spans from 1865-1899
• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper : Abolitionist - born in Baltimore, Harper was the only child of free Black parents.  She was an abolitionist, orator, poet, and novelist.