Memphis TV station WHBQ put together a website containing historical video footage from the Memphis sanitation workers strike that brought Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to their city during a period of demonstrations and unrest. Take a look here:A View From the Mountaintop
I think this is an interesting example of a group of non-archivists/historians/librarians/professional records people taking charge and creating a way to share and preserve the materials that they have.
News article about this project:Memphis TV Station Uses Archives As Online Resource
Over the years,different portions of the voluminous “King papers”(if they can even be distilled into something like one group) have been in and out of the media. Currently,many institutions hold materials relating to Dr. King,and there has been no small amount of fighting over where the various papers should be kept and accessed. I’m glad to see that this TV station,not in the business of historical memory,has decided to share their materials with everyone.
Some of the places that Dr. Martin Luther King’s papers can be found:
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Archive at Boston University