Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

• the triumph of the cause

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Childhood

• Middle class background
• Age 6 awareness of race
• Fathers experience in store
• High school bus trip

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MLK QUOTES

• How could I love a race of people who hated me
  and who had been responsible for breaking me up
  with one of my best childhood friends?
• From that moment on, I was determined to hate
  every white person. As I grew older and older,
  this feeling continued to grow.

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Walk This Way

• Theological Seminary
• Public speaking class
• Solution to racial problems
• Philosophical journey

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INFLUENCES Two Guys
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Henry David Thoreau

• It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for
  law, but for right.

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Mohandas K. Gandhi
Noncooperation with evil is as much a duty as
cooperation with good.
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Montgomery

• Montgomery Improvement Association
• Boycott
• Bombing the test of non-violence

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It is the triumph of the cause that I am
concerned about, and I have always felt that
ultimately along the way of life an individual
must stand up and be counted.
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I was asked by you to serve as your spokesman. I
want it to be known the length and breadth of
this land that if I am stopped, this movement
will not stop.
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference

• Initial successes
• SNCC
• Failure in Albany 1961
• SNCC splits

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Bombingham
a letter from jail
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March on Washington
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
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Selma 1965
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Lyndon Baines Johnson

• and we shall overcome.

Voting Rights Act of 1965
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Chicago 1966 de facto segregation
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and the War on Poverty
Poor Peoples Campaign (1967)
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VIETNAM
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April 4, 1968
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The Balance Sheet

• Actual accomplishments
• Mythological status/cult of personality
• Disappointments
• Legacy