Martin Luther King Jr beyond 'I Have A Dream'

  • Martin Luther King Jr among the leaders behind former US President Lyndon B Johnson at the August 1965 signing of the Voting Rights Act. Photo: US National Archives
    Martin Luther King Jr among the leaders behind former US President Lyndon B Johnson at the August 1965 signing of the Voting Rights Act. Photo: US National Archives
  • King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interrracial Justice, in a crowd at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963. Photo: US National Archives
    King, president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Mathew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic Conference for Interrracial Justice, in a crowd at the Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963. Photo: US National Archives
  • King with organisers of the Civil Rights March on Washington in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Photo: US National Archives
    King with organisers of the Civil Rights March on Washington in front of the Lincoln Memorial. Photo: US National Archives
  • King's 1963 mugshot after his arrest for protesting over the treatment of black Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
    King's 1963 mugshot after his arrest for protesting over the treatment of black Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
  • King, right, accompanied by the Rev Ralph D Abernathy, centre, is booked by city police Lt D H Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, for his part in the bus boycott protests, on February 23, 1956. AP
    King, right, accompanied by the Rev Ralph D Abernathy, centre, is booked by city police Lt D H Lackey in Montgomery, Alabama, for his part in the bus boycott protests, on February 23, 1956. AP
  • King visits the Soviet Sector border of the Berlin Wall in Bernauer Strasse. Photo: US Information Service Bonn
    King visits the Soviet Sector border of the Berlin Wall in Bernauer Strasse. Photo: US Information Service Bonn
  • A 1965 telegram note requesting King's appearance before the House subcommittee on voting rights.
    A 1965 telegram note requesting King's appearance before the House subcommittee on voting rights.
  • King with Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in March 1964. Photo: Library of Congress
    King with Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in March 1964. Photo: Library of Congress
  • King and his wife Coretta Scott King enjoying a Sammy Davis Jr performance. Picture: US National Archives
    King and his wife Coretta Scott King enjoying a Sammy Davis Jr performance. Picture: US National Archives