Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service: January 18, 2021
MLK Jr. Day events on campus and in the community.
Monday, January 18, 2021, is Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Although Dr. King was born on January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr. Day is observed on the third Monday in January. Meant to be “a day on, not a day off,” this is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service.
Georgia State University is hosting multiple events in commemoration of Dr. King, beginning on January 18 and extending into February, which is Black History Month. Important events include:
- MLK Day of Service: 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Monday, Jan. 18
- Multicultural Center Talk Tuesday — ‘We Gon’ Be Alright: Open Dialogue on Race, Restorative Justice & How We Heal Despite Difference”: 12 to 1:15 p.m., Tuesday, Jan. 19
- MLK Commemoration and Virtual Dinner: 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 21
- Sweet Auburn Quest: Friday, Jan. 22 through Tuesday, Jan. 26
- Diversity Dialogues: Georgia State University’s Role in the Future of Atlanta – An International City: 1 to 2:30 p.m., Thursday, Jan. 28
- Groundbreaker Lecture: The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.: 4 to 5:30 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 11
- The Mario Bennekin Black History Symposium: Monday, Feb. 15 through Friday, Feb. 19
For more information about these events and other local and community events, please visit GSU’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’s MLK Commemoration Page at http://dei.gsu.edu/info/mlk.
The GSU Library has many resources to help you learn more about Dr. King, the Civil Rights Movement, and Black activism today. Here is a list of newly required resources on these topics:
About Dr. King
- Peniel E. Joseph, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. (2020; print book)
- Richard Lischer, The Preacher King: Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Word That Moved America (2020; ebook)
- Montague R. Williams, Church in Color: Youth Ministry, Race, and The Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. (2020; ebook)
- Vicki L. Crawford and Lewis V. Baldwin, editors, Reclaiming the Great World House: The Global Vision of Martin Luther King Jr. (2019; ebook)
- Justin Rose, The Drum Major Instinct: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Theory of Political Service (2019; ebook)
About the Civil Rights Movement
- Jaimie Baron and Kristin Fuhs, editors, I Am Not Your Negro: A Docalogue (2021; ebook)
- Karen D. Crozier, Fannie Lou Hamer’s Revolutionary Practical Theology: Racial and Environmental Justice Concerns (2021; ebook)
- John A. Kirk, editor, The Civil Rights Movement: A Documentary Reader (2020; ebook)
- Claire Whitlinger, Between Remembrance and Repair: Commemorating Racial Violence in Philadelphia, Mississippi (2020; ebook)
- Ian Zack, Odetta: A Life in Music and Protest (2020; ebook)
- Evan Faulkenbury, Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South (2020; ebook)
- Jessica Ingram, Road Through Midnight: A Civil Rights Memorial (2020; ebook)
- Sharon Monteith, SNCC’s Stories: The African American Freedom Movement in the Civil Rights South (2020; ebook)
- Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era (2020; ebook)
- Vincent J. Intondi, African Americans Against the Bomb: Nuclear Weapons, Colonialism, and the Black Freedom Movement (2020; ebook)
- Brian C. Odom and Stephen P. Waring, editors, NASA and the Long Civil Rights Movement (2020; ebook)
- Michael R. Fischbach, Black Power and Palestine: Transnational Countries of Color (2020; ebook)
Black Activism Today
- Stacey Abrams, Our Time is Now: Power, Purpose, and the Fight for a Fair America (2020; print only, ebook not available)
- Marc Lamont Hill, Frank Barat, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, editors, We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility (2020; ebook)
- Tiffany Austin, Sequoia Maner, Emily Ruth Rutter, and darlene anita scott, Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era (2020; print book)
- Tehama Lopez Bunyasi, Stay Woke: A People’s Guide to Making All Black Lives Matter (2019; print book)
- Johanna C. Luttrell, White People and Black Lives Matter: Ignorance, Empathy, and Justice (2019; print book)
- Jennifer Cobbina, Hands Up, Don’t Shoot: Why the Protests in Ferguson and Baltimore Matter, and How They Changed America (2019; print book)
- Duchess Harris, Black Feminist Politics from Kennedy to Trump (2019; print book)
- Mikki Kendall, Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot (2020)