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| | Martin Luther King, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | King's name and legacy have often been invoked since his death as people have begun to debate where he would have stood on various modern political issues were he alive today. | | | King himself admitted that the vast majority of the poor were black anyway, implying that he could put his proposed programs in terms of class and not race, while still achieving the end of compensatory treatment, albeit via a more agreeable position. | | | Lomax had been publishing a series of investigative stories on the King assassination for the North American Newspaper Alliance, stories challenging the official view of the case, and had been reportedly pressured by the FBI to halt his investigation. |
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| | The King Center - Remember! Celebrate! Act! - King Holiday Information |
| | Yet, Dr. King knew that it wasn’t enough just to talk the talk, that he had to walk the walk for his words to be credible. | | | The King Holiday celebrates Dr. King’s global vision of the world house, a world whose people and nations had triumphed over poverty, racism, war and violence. | | | And though we take patriotic pride that Dr. King was an American, on this holiday we must also commemorate the global leader who inspired nonviolent liberation movements around the world. |
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| | Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| | Edgar Hoover was determined to discredit King; in November of 1964 the FBI sent King a tape of one of his encounters with another woman, along with a note recommending suicide. | | | King's assassination led to disturbances in well over 100 cities and, before the violence subsided on April 11, the deaths of 46 people (mostly African Americans), 35,000 injuries, and 20,000 people jailed. | | | Levinson was also a key factor in the FBI's later surveillance of King: there were allegations of a connection between Levinson and the Communist Party that formed one of the legal bases for wiretaps of King's telephone communications. |
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| | Martin Luther King Jr Day - MartinLutherKing Holiday Website |
| | Clearly a victory for nonviolent protest, King emerged as a highly respected leader and was chosen as president of the newly formed Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). | | | On April 3, 1968, King spoke of having "been to the mountain top and seen the Promised Land." The following day, while seeking to assist a garbage workers' strike in Memphis, Martin Luther King, Jr. | | | By this time, the core of King's philosophy of nonviolent protest had been formed, based on the ideals of Mohandas K. (Mahatma) Gandhi. |
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| | The King Center |
| | Among the Rev. King, Sr.’s many accomplishments is the completion of his one luxury, the publication of his autobiography, Daddy King. | | | His charismatic leadership inspired men and women, young and old, in this nation and around the world. | | | The following excerpts reveal the cogency, conviction and persuasion of his powerful speaking style. |
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http://www.thekingcenter.org/mlk/bio.html
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| | A Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| | United States Department of Justice investigation of recent allegations regarding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | | | On January 12, mostly concerned ministers, labor leaders, lawyers, and activists got together and formed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in an effort to gain information and strategy for ending segregation in their cities and towns. | | | An American death; the true story of the assassination of Dr. |
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http://www.liu.edu/cwis/cwp/library/mlking.htm
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| | Martin Luther King, Jr. - Free Encyclopedia |
| | Coretta Scott King, King's widow and also a civil rights leader, along with the rest of King's family won a wrongful death civil trial against Loyd Jowers, who claimed to have received $100,000 to arrange King's assassination. | | | John Birch Society: "An Anti-Communist Negro Makes This Appeal: Please Don't Help Glorify Martin Luther King" by Mrs. | | | King, however, was not present; after meeting with President Lyndon Johnson, he had attempted to delay the march until March 8, and the march was carried out against his wishes and without his presence by local civil rights workers. |
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| | Martin Luther King Day Quotes and Sayings |
| | President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... | | | Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., March 22, 1956 | | | Without denying the value of scientific endeavor, there is a striking absurdity in committing billions to reach the moon where no people live, while only a fraction of that amount is appropriated to service the densely populated slums. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? |
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| | Martin Luther King - Biography |
| | When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. | | | The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. | | | Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. |
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http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1964/king-bio.html
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| | Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| | "As is usually the case with great figures, particularly controversial ones who are fighting for a philosophy condemned by many, Dr. King was well ahead of his time." says Joseph Lowery, King's contemporary counterpart as president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta. | | | The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, which coordinated the petition campaign, also kept continuous pressure on Congress for the holiday. | | | When President Reagan signed legislation creating the holiday in November of 1983, it marked the end of a persistent, highly organized lobbying effort spanning the nation for 15 years. |
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http://www.patriotism.org/mlk
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| | Martin Luther King Scavenger Hunt |
| | The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. | | | with his father, "Daddy King", Dr. King, Jr. | | | Martin Luther King was part of a bigger history of Black struggle in the United States. |
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http://tstrong.com/mlking/Martin2005.htm
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| | TIME 100: Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| | It is only because of King and the movement that he led that the U.S. can claim to be the leader of the "free world" without inviting smirks of disdain and disbelief. | | | King announces on April 25, 1967, that he would not be a candidate for the president of the United States | | | Before King and his movement, a tired and thoroughly respectable Negro seamstress like Rosa Parks could be thrown into jail and fined simply because she refused to give up her seat on an Alabama bus so a white man could sit down. |
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| | Lesson Plan - Martin Luther King Day |
| | Martin was very impressed with Gandhi and he would later follow Gandhi's example of non-violent protests (Sorensen 1994). | | | One day, when he went to ask the boys to play, their mother told him that her sons could not play with him ever again because he was black. | | | Explain that Dr. King worked for civil rights, the basic rights and freedoms of citizens. |
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http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-celebrations/mlkday.html
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| | Martin Luther King, Jr. - EnchantedLearning.com |
| | King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. | | | Martin Luther King, Jr., was a great man who worked for racial equality and civil rights in the United States of America. | | | Read a timeline of Dr. King's life and answer yes/no questions on his life. |
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http://www.enchantedlearning.com/history/us/MLK
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| | Martin Luther King Day |
| | , watch him on The Speeches of Martin Luther King video, or listen to his most famous In Search Of Freedom Excerpts speeches on high quality digital CD. | | | Martin Luther King was a powerful leader in human rights in the United States in the 1960s. | | | While his cause was associated with African-Americans and the Quest for rights, his message was one for all mankind. |
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http://www.holidayorigins.com/html/martin_luther_king.html
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| | Black Looks: Martin Luther King Day |
| | Ms Forna then returns to her beginnings in Scotland and then on to life in the Forna family in Sierra Leone running parallel with the violent politics of post colonial Africa - coups, counter coups, deception, bribery, lies, torture and murder through to the horrendous years of civil war and child solidiers. | | | The book begins when she is 10 years old on the day her father was taken away never to be seen again by his family. | | | Most Americans believe there has been significant progress in achieving Martin Luther King Jr. |
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http://okrasoup.typepad.com/black_looks/2006/01/martin_luther_k.html
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| | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the Net - The Story of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| | He traveled across America to support and speak out about civil rights and the rights of the underprivileged | | | The United States Supreme Court would end the boycott, which lasted 381 days, by declaring that Alabama's state and local laws requiring segregation on buses were illegal. | | | So in order to spend more time with his family he wrote his first book, Stride Toward Freedom which was a success. |
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http://www.holidays.net/mlk/story.htm
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| | Martin Luther King Day |
| | Martin Luther King was at the front of the "March on Washington." On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial* that day, Dr. King delivered a speech that was later entitled "I Have a Dream." The March was one of the largest gatherings of black and white people that the nation's capital had ever seen... | | | Many were the same people who, in 1965, had marched for fifty miles between two cities in the state of Alabama to protest segregation and descrimination of black Americans. | | | This "living memorial" consists of his boyhood home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church*, where King is buried. |
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http://exchanges.state.gov/education/engteaching/mlkbday.htm
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| | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (United States) |
| | In 1967, King began to focus some of his energy on the war in Vietnam, a move that many believed to be a betrayal of the civil rights cause. | | | The boycott lasted 381 days and served as the impetus in the creation of Southern Christian Leadership Conference. | | | King justified his decision by stating in a 1967 speech that "we have been repeatedly faced with the cruel irony of watching Negro and white boys on TV screens as they kill and die together for a nation that has been unable to seat them together in the same schools." |
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http://www3.kumc.edu/diversity/national/kingday.html
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| | Education World ® - Lesson Planning: Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King! |
| | King led the fight against laws that were unfair to black people. | | | Martin Luther King's "I have a dream..." speech is one of the most famous and often quoted speeches of all time. | | | You can find a King biographical sketch on the Web page of the Louisiana State University library. |
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http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/lesson046.shtml
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| | About USA : American Holidays > Martin Luther King's Day |
| | The world was shocked when Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. | | | Among these laws were those in some states which required black people to take back seats in buses or which obstructed voting by blacks. | | | Middle Tennessee State University - Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| | Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday |
| | For the first time, MLK Day is held in some form—sometimes under a different name, and not always as a paid state holiday—in all fifty states. | | | Some opponents said King did not deserve his own holiday—contending that the entire civil rights movement rather than one individual, however instrumental, should be honored. | | | Arizona governor Evan Mecham rescinds MLK Day as his first act in office, setting off a boycott of the state. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/spot/mlkhistory1.html
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| | Martin Luther King Day by Paul Craig Roberts |
| | I agree with him that a person should be judged by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin. | | | Would he endorse redistributive "racial justice," which means the end of limited government and the death of legal equality, or would he come to the defense of equality before the law? | | | Those who take his name in vain assume that they will always be the ones who determine the boundaries of discord. |
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| | Scholastic News: |
| | But during his last days, Fernandez snapped some of the most illuminating images of the man and his turbulent times. | | | In these photographs, we see King as a father, a husband, and an activist whose battles have taken their toll. | | | On April 15, 1967, during a march in New York City from Central Park to the United Nations, photographer Benedict Fernandez met Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/mlk/news/index.asp?article=home&topic=0
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| | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the Net - Welcome |
| | A time to remember his fight for the freedom, equality, and dignity of all races and peoples. | | | e've got stories of Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks and the Civil Rights Movement. | | | Day will be on Monday January 16, 2006. |
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| | Martin Luther King Day |
| | Freeman said much of the dialogue is taken from speeches the two men made. | | | The two did in fact meet, but only in passing. | | | The imaginary meeting takes place in a hotel living room suite circa 1965, somewhere between the time Malcolm X's New York City home was firebombed in April and three weeks later when he was assassinated. |
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| | MLK Day of Service |
| | Hundreds of thousands of Americans will remember and memorialize Dr. King by participating in service projects in their communities. | | | During his lifetime, Dr. King sought to forge the common ground on which people from all walks of life could join together to address important community issues. | | | Working alongside individuals of all ages, races and backgrounds, Dr. King encouraged Americans to come together to strengthen communities, alleviate poverty, and acknowledge dignity and respect for all human beings. |
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| | CNN - Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| | Ray tells M.L. King's son he didn't kill his father | | | The nation remembered the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. | | | The Dr. King Timeline Page from the Buckman School |
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| | Martin Luther King Jr. Day and other holiday resources at FamilyEducation.com |
| | Day, learn more and celebrate the life and times of an American hero. | | | His work, words, and wisdom mean many things to many people. | | | See what you know about Martin Luther King Jr., a renowned civil rights leader. |
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| | Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| | Excerpt from the "I Have a Dream" Speech | | | Click on the links below for more information on the life of King and other important civil rights leaders. | | | The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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| | Kids Domain - Martin Luther King Jr. Day |
| | Guess the words of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech | | | Learn about Dr. King’s life and legacy, plus games, clip art, coloring pages and more. | | | A short biography of Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| | Martin Luther King, Jr. Day/Black History Month |
| | Papers Projects at Stanford University, the King Estate, the King Center, and a listing of other related web sites. | | | History of the National Martin Luther King, Jr. | | | Site that includes history on Dr. King, media information, and info on current and past celebrations in his honor including dates, locations, and times. |
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http://www.lib.lsu.edu/hum/mlk
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| | Home - Build the Dream |
| | © 2006 Washington, DC Martin Luther King, Jr. | | | National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
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