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Six stages of my @New Yorker spring cover: doodle, sketch, rough, pencil, ink, finished.

Mourning Dr. King

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 50 years ago today, on April 4, 1968. Explore how Americans across the country mourned his death through our partners’ collections.

Selected images:

Marchers honor Martin Luther King, Jr. in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, courtesy of Mississippi Department of Archives & History via Digital Library of Georgia.

Student protestors gather to mourn in Los Angeles, courtesy of Los Angeles Public Library via California Digital Library.

Kent State students march in memory of Dr. King, courtesy of Kent State University Libraries via Ohio Digital Network.

Women’s History Month Collection Spotlight

New from Ohio Digital Network: check out Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County’s wartime poster collection. Plus, explore over 500 more posters on women during wartime, including:

“Women of Britain, Come into the factories,” from the collection of Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County via Ohio Digital Network

“Find your war job in Industry - Agriculture - Business,” from the collection of Boston Public Library via Digital Commonwealth

“WAAC: This is My War Too!” from the collection of SJSU King Library via California Digital Library

“Women in the War - We can’t win without them,” from Pennsylvania State Archives via PA Digital

Lord of the Rings Poster series by DreamMachinePrints

Tomorrow is UNC’s second game against Duke this season, but it’s also the anniversary of an amazing UNC win. It was March 4th, 2006 and Senior Day for Duke and J. J. Redick. UNC hadn’t won a game at Cameron in five years. Tyler Hansbrough, Marcus Ginyard, Bobby Frasor, and Danny Green were all freshmen, and no one expected UNC to perform well.

But the Tar Heels won 83-76, beginning a 4-year streak of winning in Cameron.

The other big news? A group of Robertson scholars camped out in K-ville and infiltrated the Cameron Crazies in beautiful Carolina blue.

Watch the full March 6th, 2006 Carolina Week where we got that awesome GIF footage.

Read more about the game at GoHeels.com.