Remembering Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Sunday marks the 94th birthday of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Monday is the federal holiday honoring him. Since the 1990s, Martin Luther King Jr. Day has been a day of civic, community and service projects. Martin Luther King III, Dr. King’s eldest son and a global human rights advocate, joins John Yang to discuss his father’s legacy, in the video published on Jan 15, 2023, by PBS NewsHour, as “Martin Luther King III reflects on Dr. King’s legacy in divided times“, below:
President Joe Biden became the first sitting US president to speak at a Sunday service at Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. once preached, in the video published on Jan 15, 2023, by CNN, as “Biden honors MLK Jr. in speech at Ebenezer Baptist Church“, below:
For more details about Martin Luther King, Jr., please refer to the excerpt from wikipedia, in italics, below:
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist, one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. An African-American church leader and a son of early civil rights activist and minister Martin Luther King Sr., King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through nonviolence and civil disobedience. Inspired by his Christian beliefs and the nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi, he led targeted, nonviolent resistance against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination.
King participated in and led marches for the right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and other civil rights.[1] He oversaw the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As president of the SCLC, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize some of the nonviolent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The civil rights movement achieved pivotal legislative gains in the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
The SCLC put into practice the tactics of nonviolent protest with some success by strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic standoffs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent,[2] King was jailed several times. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI’s COINTELPRO from 1963 forward. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties, spied on his personal life, and secretly recorded him. The FBI in 1964 mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.[3]
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition towards poverty, capitalism, and the Vietnam War. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People’s Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by national mourning, as well as anger leading to riots in many U.S. cities. King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Gold Medal in 2003. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in cities and states throughout the United States beginning in 1971; the federal holiday was first observed in 1986, through legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and King County in Washington State was rededicated for him. The Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011.
The King family joins “GMA3” to celebrate and commemorate the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in the video published on Jan 16, 2023, by Good Morning America, as “Honoring the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.”, below:
The Morning Joe panel remembers the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on his birthday, in the video published on Jan 16, 2023, by MSNBC, “Rev. Al: Martin Luther King Day isn’t a day to take off; it’s a day to take on“, below:
Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture. “One of his most important speeches”, comments Dr. Clayborne Carson, Director of The King Institute at Stanford University, on the lecture. ”It lays out his goals for the remainder of his life. He also addresses the problems of racial injustice, poverty and war as global evils rather than specific American problems.” The recording dates from 11 December 1964, and in contrast with the previously published text version, it finishes with Dr. King echoing his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech for equality and freedom: “Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!” Dr. King was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his nonviolent campaign against racial segregation, a Prize which he accepted on behalf of the civil rights movement. The Nobel Lecture is a requirement for the Nobel Prize. A Nobel Lecture has been held by all Laureates – with very few exceptions – since the first Nobel Prizes were awarded in 1901, in the video published on Jan 20, 2016, by Nobel Prize, as “Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Nobel Peace Prize Lecture from Oslo, 11 Dec. 1964 (full audio)“, below:
In the video published on Dec 28, 2015, by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, as “#MLK: Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech in Oslo, Norway, 1964// #Nonviolence365“, below:
In the video published on Aug 19, 2015, by The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, as “MLK: I’ve Been To The Mountaintop!“, below:
In the video published on Oct 27, 2017, by #Be Phenomenal Motivation, as “Martin Luther King – Inspirational Speech {Be Phenomenal Motivation}“, below:
In the video published on Dec 18, 2020, by Christian Online Services, as “The Last Sunday Sermon of Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr“, below:
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