Media Requests For more information about the Martin Luther King, Jr. archive or use of any newspaper images on the site, contact Crystal Hardinger Promotions Specialist chardinger@newspaperarchive.com 319.390.9442 x27 Press Releases For Immediate Release January 12, 2006 MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com tells the story of Dr. King through historic newspaper articles NewspaperARCHIVE.com releases site in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday In recognition of the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday, NewspaperARCHIVE.com has released www.MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com, a free newspaper archive of 50,000 newspapers pages from around the country that contain articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. The site includes original stories about the Montgomery bus boycott, the "I Have A Dream" speech, details about King's assassination on April 4, 1968, along with thousands of other headlines regarding Dr. King from various newspapers across the country. With the use of Adobe Reader and Optical Character Recognition technology, students and researchers can quickly obtain historical articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. by searching with key words or dates. For example, to obtain articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. when he was involved in the Montgomery bus boycott, users of the site can just enter key words "bus boycott" in the exact phrase field on the advanced search page. If a researcher is looking for articles written on the day of King's Assassination, they can search under "April 4, 1968". "MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com was designed to give students an opportunity to read original articles about Martin Luther King, Jr. from the time period in which the events happened," said Jeff Kiley, Director of Sales and Marketing for NewspaperARCHIVE.com. "It is an exceptional learning tool as the articles give a first hand account of many of the challenges Martin Luther King, Jr. faced in the 1950's and 1960's during the civil rights movement." Along with the newspaper archive, the website contains a brief timeline of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life that is told through newspaper accounts. For example, the timeline reads on September 18, 1964, that Dr. King met with Pope Paul VI. Users of the site can then read an article from September 19, 1964, about King's meeting with the pope. "The website is simple enough for a student to use for a school report, yet it's just as valuable for a veteran researcher looking to confirm a specific fact," said Matt Reinhart, graphic designer for the site. Researchers interested in finding more information about Martin Luther King, Jr. can also go to NewspaperARCHIVE.com where there are 100,461 newspaper pages about Dr. King. NewspaperARCHIVE.com, the largest newspaper database available online, is owned by Heritage Microfilm and began in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1999. Heritage Microfilm 4049 21st Ave SW Cedar Rapids, IA 52404 Toll Free: 1.888.870.0484 MartinLutherKingJrArchive.com HeritageMicrofilm.com NewspaperARCHIVE.com