MARTIN LUTHER KING
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Martin Luther King as pastors was born (Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin) in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S on January 15, 1929 and die in Memphis, Tennessee, U. S on April 04, 1968.
How about his family?
Martin continue his study in Boston and he met and married with Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family. They are :
- Yolanda Denise King (1955-2007)
- Martin Luther King III (1957)
- Dexter Scott King (1961)
- Bernice Albertine King (1963)
How about Martin almamater?
- Morehouse College
- Crozer Theological Seminary
- Boston University
Is he an activist? Yes, he is
So, he join an organization, right? What is that?
In 1957, King, Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, Joseph Lowery, and other civil rights activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The group was created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct nonviolent protests in the service of civil rights reform. King led the SCLC until his death. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Mahatma Gandhi.
How his struggle in demanding the rights of black skin people?
In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson, he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times.
I HAVE A DREAM
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
What awards that he received?
- Nobel Peace Prize (1964)
- Presidential Medal of Freedom(1977, posthumous)
- Congressional Gold Medal(2004, posthumous)
His last moments is...
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Martin in Memoriam
- Statue of King in Birmingham
- Yerba Buena Gardens
- National Mall in Washington D.C, was dedicated in 2011
- He was awarded five honorary degrees, was named Man of the Year by Timemagazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
"we must accept infinite disappoinment, but never lose infinite hope"
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