The Atrium

Many gathered yesterday in celebration of the groundbreaking for the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington DC. Among the thousands in attendance were President George Bush, former President Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey and King's children. The King Memorial will be the first monument on the National Mall that honours an African-American, and is only half-mile from where he gave his famous, "I Have a Dream" speech.

To learn more about this important leader from the American Civil Rights Movement, check out these:

• At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68
• To the mountaintop : Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968
• Growing up king : an intimate memoir
• Citizen King
• Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream."