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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American civil rights activist and Baptist minister who was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968. He advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of legalized discrimination, which most commonly af…
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culture · American minister and civil rights activist (1929–1968) · pastor · preacher · civil rights advocate · peace activist · pacifist · writer · politician · opinion journalist · religious leader · cleric · also Martin Luther King Jr., Jr.
Born 15 January 1929 · Died 4 April 1968 · Q8027
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Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks about Barry Goldwater at a press conference at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol, August 1964 (audio from Polygoon)
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2026· 19 entries
“overcome, we shall overcome.”
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“Move on from mountains of stagnant complacency and deadening pacifity.”
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“You have been in this mountain long enough, turn ye and go on your journey, move on to the mount of the Amorite.”
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“the Negro revolution is a genuine revolution, born from the same womb that produces all massive social upheavals—the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.”
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“following the path of appeasement of political powers in the South”
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“something is wrong with capitalism”
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“but match the violence of his opponents with his suffering.”
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“because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”
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“did not begin to send in any large number of supplies or men until American forces had arrived in the tens of thousands”
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“I am like Napoleon at Waterloo before your charms,”
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OkDiario: Martin Luther King Jr., activista por los derechos civiles: «La oscuridad no puede expulsar a la oscuridad;...
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KCRA: Sacramento’s Martin Luther King Jr. Library celebrates grand reopening after major renovation
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about.kaiserpermanente.org: Kaiser Permanente Commits $25 Million to Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital
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MacRumors: Apple Honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. With Full-Page Website Tribute
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WBUR: The future of Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a national holiday
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Yahoo: Martin Luther King Jr. Day is soon: How the civil rights leader inspired a federal holiday
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Phys.org: Martin Luther King Jr. was ahead of his time in pushing for universal basic income
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NBC Washington: 55 powerful Martin Luther King Jr. quotes to inspire you
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2025· 13 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Turning Point USA CEO and co-founder Charlie Kirk said about civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.: "MLK was awful. He's not a good person."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Bernice King, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s daughter, called on U.S. President Donald Trump to release the "Epstein files" after his administration released the FBI's files on her father in July 2025.” True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice.”” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “We need leaders not in love with money but in love with justice.”” Correct Attribution.
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President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order declassifying the records concerning the assassination
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LGBTQ Nation: Looking for the next Martin Luther King Jr.? Here’s where to find him…
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Rolling Out: Powerful legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.’s message endures
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People: Martin Luther King Jr. 'Knew That His Own Government Was Out to Destroy Him.' Here's What Helped Him Persevere
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Forbes: How Martin Luther King Jr.’s Vision Resonates With Today’s Changing Environment
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Yahoo: Martin Luther King Jr. Day: When did it become a holiday? What to know about his assassination
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Kellogg School of Management: Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Yahoo: Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy will be celebrated this month on MLK Day. Here's what to know
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People: Martin Luther King Jr. Was a 'Protest Leader Who Really Does Not Like Conflict,' Says Biographer
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2024· 10 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A color photo authentically depicts Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in 1956.” Mixture.
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Snopes rated the claim “Donald Trump's speech in Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, featured a larger crowd than did Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963.” False.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Says his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the White House Ellipse drew the “same number of people,” as the 1963 March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his “I Have a Dream” speech.” False.
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Snopes rated the claim “Martin Luther King Jr. was denied a concealed-carry gun permit in 1956.” True.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Martin Luther King Jr. was denied a concealed-carry gun permit in 1956.” True.
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PolitiFact rated the claim “Martin Luther King Jr. is “rallying around President Trump!”” Pants on Fire.
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USA Today rated the claim “Image shows post by Trump saying he marched with Martin Luther King Jr.” Altered.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."” Correct Attribution.
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Snopes rated the claim “The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once wrote, "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."” Correct Attribution.
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Served as the center's chairman until 2010
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2022· 1 entry
USA Today rated the claim “Martin Luther King Jr. was 'killed by his doctor,' not a gunman” False.
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2021· 2 entries
AP News rated the claim “Dr. Michael Baden was the medical examiner for Gabby Petito’s autopsy and also served in the same role for President John F. Kennedy, George Floyd, Jeffrey Epstein, Martin Luther King Jr. and Phil Spector.” False.
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“Citation choisie pour le 12 mars 2021.”
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2020· 1 entry
PolitiFact rated the claim “Says Martin Luther King Jr. "was killed (smothered) in the hospital" and "the US government was found guilty in a court of law of conspiring to kill him."” False.
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2019· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows Martin Luther King Jr. in the back seat of a police car, along with a dog that was put there by officers an attempt to intimidate him.” Unproven.
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2017· 2 entries
Downplayed King's role in the "black militant situation" in Chicago, with a source stating that King "sought at least constructive, positive projects
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Newcastle University unveiled a bronze statue of King to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his honorary doctorate ceremony
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2016· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 8 mai 2016.”
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2015· 1 entry
“Sylvie Laurent, Martin Luther King — Une biographie intellectuelle et politique, France loisirs, 2015. (ISBN 978-2-298-10735-7)”
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2012· 2 entries
“Stéphane Hessel et Albert Jacquard, Exigez ! Un désarmement nucléaire total, Stock, 2012.”
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King's youngest child, Bernice King, became the CEO
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2008· 3 entries
“Er hat ein unheimliches Charisma, ist sehr eloquent, einer der intelligentesten Menschen in unserem Land. Das sind Qualitäten, die auch mein Vater hatte. Aber es gibt einen großen Unterschied: Mein Vater war kein Politiker. Mr Obama muss viele Leute zufriedenstellen." - Martin Luther King III., über Barack Obama und seinen Vater Martin Luther King, Stern Nr. 25/2008 vom 12. Juni 2008, S. 50”
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“Mein Vater sprach immer davon, die drei großen Übel zu überwinden: Armut, Militarismus, Rassismus. Schauen Sie, wo wir heute stehen." - Martin Luther King III., über seinen Vater Martin Luther King, Stern Nr. 25/2008 vom 12. Juni 2008, S. 50”
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“Ein Schwarzer im Weißen Haus ist nicht die Erfüllung seines Traums. Vielleicht ein Teil davon. Sein Traum wird erst wahr, wenn alle Amerikaner eine Krankenversicherung haben, alle den gleichen Zugang zu guten Schulen, zu Jobs, zu bezahlbaren Wohnungen." - Martin Luther King III., über Barack Obama und seinen Vater Martin Luther King, Stern Nr. 25/2008 vom 12. Juni 2008, S. 50”
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2007· 1 entry
Was a motivational speaker, author and founder of Higher Ground Productions, an organization specializing in diversity training
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2004· 1 entry
Won Congressional Gold Medal (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
“Ich habe einen Traum, dass meine vier Kinder eines Tages in einer Nation leben werden, in der man sie nicht nach ihrer Hautfarbe, sondern nach ihrem Charakter beurteilen wird."- Herausgeber: Bahr, Hans-Eckehard Bahr und Grosse, Heinrich W. Düsseldorf, 2003. ISBN 3-491-45025-X”
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Pepper published a book about the investigation and trial, as well as his representation of James Earl Ray in his bid for a trial
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2002· 1 entry
The New York Times reported that a church minister, Ronald Denton Wilson, claimed his father, Henry Clay Wilson, assassinated King
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2000· 1 entry
Snopes rated the claim “The United States Postal Service's new "I Have a Dream" stamp honoring Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. will be discontinued and recalled if not enough postal customers purchase them.” False.
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1997· 1 entry
King's son Dexter Scott King met with Ray, and publicly supported Ray's efforts to obtain a new trial
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Humanitarian of the Year (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights (1978).
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1977· 2 entries
Won Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Jimmy Carter (1977).
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His remains were transferred to a tomb on the site of the Martin Luther King Jr
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1971· 1 entry
Cities and states established annual holidays to honor King
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1970· 1 entry
Out of the foundation's base in Balham, to find employment for professionally qualified black people
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1969· 2 entries
After King's assassination and following a visit to the UK in 1969 by his widow, Coretta King
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Though he recanted this confession three days later
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1968· 16 entries
Died 1968-04-04.
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King went to Memphis, Tennessee, in support of the black sanitation workers, who were represented by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) Local 1733
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King called for a large march on Washington against "one of history's most cruel and senseless wars":
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“In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns.”
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“Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream.... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on.”
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King and the SCLC organized the "Poor People's Campaign" to address economic justice
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A World Constituent Assembly convened to draft and adopt the Constitution for the Federation of Earth
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King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D
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“I do not personally know of anyone more worthy of [this prize] than this gentle monk from Vietnam. His ideas for peace, if applied, would build a monument to ecumenism, to world brotherhood, to humanity”
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“The non-violent Negro is seeking to create the beloved community. He directs his attack on the forces of evil rather than on individuals. The tensions are not between the races, but between the forces of justice and injustice; between the forces of light and darkness.”
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“The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism.”
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“Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.”
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“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and inhumane.”
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“I'm getting sick and tired of people saying that this movement has been infiltrated by Communists. There are as many Communists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida.”
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“What happens in Johannesburg affects Birmingham, however indirectly. We are descendants of the Africans. Our heritage is Africa. We should never seek to break the ties, nor should the Africans.”
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“I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.”
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1967· 4 entries
King spoke at an anti-war march from Manhattan's Central Park to the UN
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King gave a speech in New York City, his first to publicly question U
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“Ungerechtigkeit an irgendeinem Ort bedroht die Gerechtigkeit an jedem anderen." - Warum wir nicht warten können. Düsseldorf, 1967. Übersetzer: Hans Lamm”
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“discorso tenuto nella chiesa di Riverside, New York, 4 aprile 1967, citato in Ildialogo.org, 5 luglio 2005”
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1966· 4 entries
Were met by thrown bottles and screaming throngs
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Awarded Margaret Sanger Awards (1966).
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Awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding (1966).
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After several successes in the south, King, Bevel, and others in the civil rights organizations took the movement to the North
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1965· 4 entries
Awarded Pacem in Terris Award (1965).
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At which King was not present, was aborted because of mob and police violence against the demonstrators
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“there are as many Communists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida.”
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Entitled: "In Search of the Enemy of Man"
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1964· 8 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his non-violent struggle for civil rights for the Afro-American population.
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Awarded Gandhi Peace Award (1964).
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1964).
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King spoke at Saint Francis College's "The Negro and the Quest for Identity", in Biddeford, Maine
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King delivered the inaugural speech of a lecture series initiated at the New School called "The American Race Crisis"
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“Die Rassenprobleme werden nie endgültig gelöst werden, solange die unterdrückten Menschen nicht fähig sind, ihre Feinde zu lieben." - Die Kraft zum Lieben. Konstanz, 1964. Übersetzer: Hans-Georg Noack”
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The FBI mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide
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“Unsere Leidenskraft ist ebenso groß wie eure Macht, uns Leiden zuzufügen. Tut mit uns, was ihr wollt, wir werden euch trotzdem lieben. […] Werft uns ins Gefängnis, wir werden euch trotzdem lieben. Werft Bomben in unsere Häuser, bedroht unsere Kinder, wir werden euch trotzdem lieben." - Die Kraft zum Lieben. Konstanz, 1964. Übersetzer: Hans-Georg Noack”
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1963· 4 entries
Awarded Time Person of the Year (1963).
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“(Original englisch: "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Letter from a Birmingham Jail (1963))”
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“discorso tenuto il 28 agosto 1963, citato in Lavocedinewyork.com, 18 gennaio 2021”
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“We must never substitute a doctrine of Black supremacy for white supremacy. For the doctrine of Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy. God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow men but God is interested in the freedom of the whole human race, the creation of a society where all men will live together as brothers”
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1962· 2 entries
King and the Gandhi Society produced a document that called on U
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King and the Gandhi Society produced a document that called on President Kennedy to issue an executive order to deliver a blow to segregation as a kind of Second Emancipation Proclamation
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1961· 2 entries
"had planned to stay a day or so and return home after giving counsel
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A group of Black elders including King notified student leaders that a deal had been reached: the city's lunch counters would desegregate in fall 1961, in conjunction with the court-mandated desegregation of schools
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1960· 2 entries
King drove writer Lillian Smith to Emory University when police stopped them
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“I felt that Kennedy would make the best president. I never came out with an endorsement. My father did, but I never made one.”
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1959· 4 entries
Awarded Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards for Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1959).
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“The Measures of Man (1959)”
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“Palm Sunday Sermon on Mohandas K. Gandhi, Delivered at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (22 March 1959)”
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“Address at the Fiftieth Annual NAACP Convention (17 July 1959)”
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1958· 8 entries
King was signing copies of his book Stride Toward Freedom in Blumstein's department store in Harlem when Izola Curry—a mentally ill black woman who thought King was conspiring against her with communists—stabbed him in t
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“In reference to the Alabama Council on Human Relations, an organization which was joined by King, whose church's meeting room was used to hold monthly meetings for the Montgomery chapter the council. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story (1958)”
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“We too know the Jesus that the minister referred to. We have had an experience with him and we believe firmly in the revelation of God in Jesus Christ. I can see no conflict between our devotion to Jesus Christ and our present action. In fact, I can see a necessary relationship. If one is truly devoted to the religion of Jesus he will seek to rid the earth of social evils. The gospel is social as well as personal..”
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“Advice For Living" (January 1958)”
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“Stride Toward Freedom: the Montgomery Story (1958)”
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“Stride Toward Freedom (1958)”
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“Stride Toward Freedom (1958), pp. 28-29”
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“Stride Toward Freedom (1958); also quoted in The Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1982), by Stephen B. Oates, pp. 81-82”
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1957· 4 entries
Won Spingarn Medal (1957).
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“(Original englisch: "There will be no permanent solution to the race problem until oppressed men develop the capacity to love their enemies." - Loving Your Enemies. Predigt in der Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, Weihnachten 1957. In: Class of Nonviolence p. 77, 78”
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“Freedom is one thing. You have it all or you are not free.”
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King, along with Christian ministers Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth, and Joseph Lowery, as well as Bayard Rustin and other activists founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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1956· 3 entries
“In his letter to Sally Canada (19 September 1956), as quoted in The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr (1992), by Carson & Holloran, Volumes 2-3, p. 373”
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“King's words after a bomb was thrown into his house in Alabama, on 30 January 1956, in Stride Toward Freedom (1958)”
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“Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church (Montgomory, Alabama 6 Nov 1956)”
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1955· 6 entries
Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a city bus
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With a dissertation (initially supervised by Edgar S
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“Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955)”
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“In a 1955 response to an accusation that he was "disturbing the peace" by his activism during the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, as quoted in Let the Trumpet Sound : A Life of Martin Luther King, Jr (1982) by Stephen B. Oates”
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“Address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Mass Meeting, at Holt Street Baptist Church (5 December 1955). "Justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty stream" is a quotation of Amos 5:24 in the Bible.”
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Studied at Boston University, Doctor of Philosophy (1951–1955).
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1954· 2 entries
“Rediscovering Lost Values", a sermon delivered at Detroit's Second Baptist Church (28 February 1954)”
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King was called as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
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1953· 1 entry
On the lawn of her parents' house, in Heiberger, Alabama
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1952· 1 entry
“I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic ...”
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1951· 2 entries
King began doctoral studies in systematic theology at Boston University, and worked as an assistant minister at Boston's historic Twelfth Baptist Church with William Hunter Hester
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Studied at Crozer Theological Seminary, Bachelor of Divinity (1948–1951).
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1950· 1 entry
Where King would be formally exposed to these tactics
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1948· 1 entry
Studied at Morehouse College, Bachelor of Arts (1944–1948).
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1947· 1 entry
The 18-year-old King chose to enter the ministry
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1944· 3 entries
In his junior year, King gave his first public speech during an oratorical contest
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Aged 15, King passed the examination and was enrolled at the university that autumn
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“On our way here we saw some things I had never anticipated to see. After we passed Washington there was no discrimination at all. The white people here are very nice. We go to any place we want to and sit anywhere we want to.”
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1942· 1 entry
When King was 13, he became the youngest assistant manager of a newspaper delivery station for the Atlanta Journal
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1941· 2 entries
When King had sneaked away from studying at home to watch a parade, he was informed that something had happened to his maternal grandmother
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Their home was on the second floor of Alberta's parents' home, where King was born
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1939· 1 entry
King sang as a member of his church choir dressed as a slave for the all-white audience at the Atlanta premiere of the film Gone with the Wind
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1929· 2 entries
Born 1929-01-15.
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In Atlanta, the second of three children of Michael King and Alberta King (née Williams)
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1893· 1 entry
And became pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in the following year
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1853· 1 entry
“Of Justice and the Conscience”
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