Now, the children of the late Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders are bringing their parents' movement of social change into the modern age. As the country prepares to honor King on Sunday with the dedication of a $120million memorial on Washington's National Mall, King's children and their contemporaries are continuing the legacies of their parents with the aid of digital technology and personal engagement.
Martin Luther King III, the oldest of the two sons of the late civil rights leader, has teamed up with JPMorgan Chase to digitize papers saved by his mother, Coretta Scott King, dating back to the 1950s. The collection includes papers related to the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Congress of Racial Equality and the NAACP, the younger King says.
