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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +title: Historical research about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| 3 | +sidebarTitle: MLK research chatbot |
| 4 | +--- |
| 5 | + |
| 6 | +The legacy of the [Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://thekingcenter.org/about-tkc/martin-luther-king-jr/) |
| 7 | +is one of courage, justice, and transformation. Historical records surrounding the assassination of Dr. King on |
| 8 | +April 4, 1968 were declassified on July 21, 2025 by the |
| 9 | +[U.S. National Archives and Records Administration](https://www.archives.gov/research/mlk). These documents provide |
| 10 | +important insights into a pivotal moment in American history and the civil rights movement. |
| 11 | + |
| 12 | +Unstructured has published several resources that allow you to use techniques such as retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to |
| 13 | +explore these documents and use them in your own applications. These resources include: |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +- The [MLK Archive Research Assistant](https://mlk-public.demo.unstructured.io/) website, hosted by Unstructured, |
| 16 | + which allows you to ask natural-language questions about these documents and get back answers in natural language, all in chatbot-style format. |
| 17 | + To support these answers, source citations are also provided, including confidence scores and page references. |
| 18 | +- A [notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/github/Unstructured-IO/unstructured-mlk-archive-public/blob/main/MLK_Archive_RAG_Application.ipynb), |
| 19 | + developed by Unstructured and hosted in [Google Colab](https://colab.google/), which demonstrates how to use a |
| 20 | + [Jupyter notebook](https://jupyter-notebook.readthedocs.io/en/latest/notebook.html#notebook-documents) to access the same |
| 21 | + resources as the preceding MLK Archive Research Assistant website. |
| 22 | +- A [GitHub repository](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured-mlk-archive-public) that contains additional details and |
| 23 | + source code for the preceding resources. |
| 24 | +- A [raw dataset](http://example-transformations-mlk-archive.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws.com/) website, also hosted by Unstructured, |
| 25 | + that contains links to all of the released 6,301 PDF source files spanning 243,496 pages of content, and 1 MP3 audio source file, for your own use. Additionally, |
| 26 | + Unstructured has processed these PDF source files and made the processed output available as a single, downloadable 12.9 GB |
| 27 | + [JSON Lines](https://jsonlines.org/) file through this website. |
| 28 | + |
| 29 | +For questions, feedback, or bug reports about any of the Unstructured-provided resources, |
| 30 | +[post an issue](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured-mlk-archive-public/issues/new) on GitHub. You can also |
| 31 | +[view and track open issues](https://github.com/Unstructured-IO/unstructured-mlk-archive-public/issues). |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | +For questions or feedback about the historical records themselves, |
| 34 | +[contact the National Archives](https://www.archives.gov/research/mlk#contact). |
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