While Emory University has a full calendar of offerings for the upcoming King Week, Emory Libraries and the Emory Center for Digital Scholarship (ECDS) will recognize King Week next week and Black History Month in February with events and resources of their own.
Events
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“Jim Crow in the Asylum”: Kylie Smith in Conversation with Vanessa Jackson & Jennifer Grant (book launch)
Friday, Jan. 16, 7:30–8:30 p.m.
Charis Books and More
184 S. Candler St., Decatur, GA 30030
Free and open to the public (registration needed for virtual option only)
ECDS helped Smith launch her digital technology research and publishing work on this book, which grew out of a conference presentation in 2018. The book details the complicated history of mental health care in the South in the 20th century and how segregation led to deeply unequal disparities in care.
Smith is an associate professor in the Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and associate faculty in the Emory College Department of History at Emory University in Atlanta. This event is co-sponsored by the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry.
Read the blog about Smith’s research journey for this book
Register for the virtual option
Discounted admission days at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Jan. 13-23, 2026 (see home page below for hours)
National Center for Civil and Human Rights
100 Ivan Allen Jr Blvd NW
Atlanta, GA 30313
To celebrate MLK Week, members of the Emory community can now purchase discounted general admission tickets to visit the National Center for Civil and Human Rights Jan. 13-23, 2026. (with one blackout date on Friday, Jan. 17). The discount is available to Emory students, faculty, staff, and alumni.
Purchase discounted tickets at the Center’s dedicated Emory King Week web page
Mission Possible 2: Building Community Through Health Fairness – Atlanta’s Co-Authored Research Legacy
Launch of exhibition to coincide with King Week in January 2026
Digital exhibition on microsite via Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library
“Mission Possible 2” is a new digital exhibition that explores how Emory University, together with Atlanta-area medical schools and hospitals, has carried forward Dr. King’s vision from the Poor People’s Campaign into public health action.
Highlighting a legacy of collaboration with the Morehouse School of Medicine, Grady Health System, and the VA Atlanta Healthcare System, the microsite features selected Morehouse School of Medicine and Emory co-authored research that has helped to address health disparities and improve health outcomes in the Atlanta community over the past 40 years. These stories illuminate how academic and clinical institutions are building a healthier, more equitable Atlanta together.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.” – Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. (March 25, 1966)
Check out the digital exhibition (link to come)
Resources
Emory Libraries curates a special selection of resources on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Erica Bruchko, African American Studies and US history librarian, and James Steffen, humanities team leader and subject librarian for Film and Media, Theater, and Interdisciplinary Studies, choose books, ebooks, audiobooks, documentaries, and films that explore King’s remarkable life and legacy. This year’s blog focuses on documentaries about King. For more information, contact Erica Bruchko.
Although the links are provided for Emory access, members of the public can also search for these recommended titles at their county libraries.
—compiled by Maureen McGavin, senior writer, Emory Libraries