The Life of Dr. King

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The Life of Dr. King
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A great man was born

• January 15, 1929 Michael Luther King, Jr. was
  born in Atlanta, Georgia.
• He later changed his name to Martin. He is also
  known as MLK.
• The house he grew up in was on 501 Auburn Avenue.
  It is now a historic site that you can visit.
• Martin had a brother, Alfred, and a sister,
  Christine.
• His father was Martin Senior. He was a minister.
• His mother was Alberta Williams King. She was a
  teacher.

501 Auburn Avenue
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Childhood

• Young Martin was an excellent student in school.
  
• He skipped grades in both elementary school and
  high school.
• He enjoyed reading books, singing, riding a
  bicycle, and playing football and baseball.
• Martin went Morehouse College in Atlanta,
  Georgia. He was only 15 years old.

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• Alice Gatewood-Waddell depicts the birthplace of
  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his early childhood
  years, parents and family. It reflects the
  influence of his fathers church.

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The college years

• King received diplomas from
• Morehouse College in 1948
• Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951
• Boston University in 1955
• Coretta Scott and Martin met over the phone in
  1952.

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Marriage children

• Martin and Coretta were married on June 18, 1953
  in Marion, Alabama. Martin's father, the
  Reverend King, Sr., married them.
• Martin and Coretta had four children
• Yolanda "Yoki" Denise King Born November 17,
  1955.
• Martin Luther III Born on October 23, 1957.
• Dexter Scott King Born on January 30, 1961.
• Bernice Albertine King Born on March 28, 1963
  in.
• Dr. King became a minister. He moved to Alabama.
  

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta
Scott King, sit with three of their four children
in their Atlanta, GA, home, on March 17, 1963.
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• Vonda Victor shows Dr. Kings education.
  Represented also are his marriage to Coretta
  Scott and his four children.

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Civil Rights1950s

• Martin experienced racism early in life. He
  decided to do to something to make the world a
  better and fairer place.
• During the 1950's, Dr. King became active in the
  movement for civil rights and racial equality.
• Rosa Parks was arrested on December 1, 1955.
  King joins the bus boycotts.
• On December 5, 1955, he is elected president of
  the Montgomery Improvement Association. This
  makes him the official spokesman for the boycott.
  
• On November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court rules
  that bus segregation is illegal.

Mass meeting at Holt Street Baptist Church calls
for a bus boycott, December, 1955.
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Civil Rights1950s

• On May 17, 1957, Dr. King speaks to a crowd of
  15,000 in Washington, D.C.
• In 1958, the U.S. Congress passed the first Civil
  Rights Act. This is the first act passed since
  the 1870s.
• In 1958, King's first book is published. It is
  called Stride Toward Freedom.
• Martin Luther King, Jr. went on a speaking tour.
  He is nearly killed when a woman in Harlem stabs
  him.
• In 1959, Dr. King visited India to study Gandhi's
  philosophy of nonviolence.
• He resigns from pastoring to concentrate on civil
  rights full time.
• He moved to Atlanta to direct the activities of
  the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

1958 Cover of Stride Toward Freedom.
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Civil Rights1960

• King and his father become co-pastors at the
  Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia.
• Lunch counter sit-ins began in Greensboro, North
  Carolina.
• In Atlanta, King is arrested during a sit-in. He
  was waiting to be served at a restaurant.
• He is sentenced to four months in jail. John
  Kennedy and Robert Kennedy help. Dr. King is let
  out of jail.
• Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee is
  founded. They organize protests at Shaw
  University in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Students attempting to get service in Woolworths'
white lunch-counter in Greensboro, North
Carolina (1963).
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Civil Rights1961

• In November, the Interstate Commerce Commission
  bans segregation on buses. This is because of
  the work of Dr. King and the Freedom Riders.
• During the spring of 1961, student from the
  Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) started the
  Freedom Rides. They did this to end segregation
  on buses and in stations like Greyhound.

Freedom Riders waiting to board a bus.
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The Freedom Riders

• Dr. King and others faced violence along the way
  from Washington D.C. to Jackson Mississippi.
• On May 14, 1961, a bus was bombed by the Klu Klux
  Klan. They were stopped in Anniston, Alabama.
• Dr. King, and all others of the campaign, saw
  acts of violence from whites in the south. This
  proved to them that nonviolent confrontations
  could attract national attention and force
  federal action.

1961 Greyhound bus bombing in Anniston, Alabama.
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• Granville Mitchells canvas shows historic
  Freedom Riders civil rights activities and the
  violent action taken against them.

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Civil Rights1963

• On Good Friday (April 12) Dr. King is arrested
  with Ralph Abernathy for demonstrating without a
  permit.
• On April 13, the Birmingham campaign begins. This
  would prove to be the turning point to end
  segregation in the South.
• During the eleven days he spent in jail, MLK
  writes his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail.
• On May 10, the Birmingham agreement is announced.
  The stores, restaurants, and schools will be
  desegregated.
• On June 23, MLK leads 125,000 people on a Freedom
  Walk in Detroit.
• The March on Washington held August 28, is the
  largest civil rights demonstration in history.
  There were almost 250,000 people in attendance.

Dr. King is arrested more than once for
demonstrating without a permit.
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• Thomas Withrows work illustrates Kings civil
  rights work with marches, sit-ins, and protests
  as well as images of atrocities inflicted on King
  and other civil rights supporters.

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Civil Rights1964

• At the August 1963, March on Washington, King
  makes his famous I Have a Dream speech.
• On January 3, King appears on the cover of Time
  magazine as Man of the Year.
• King attends the signing ceremony of the Civil
  Rights Act of 1964 at the White House on July 2.
• During the summer, King experiences his first
  hurtful rejection by black people when he is
  stoned by Black Muslims in Harlem.
• King is awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace on
  December 10. Dr. King is the youngest person to
  receive that award at age 35.

Time Man of the Year cover.
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Civil Rights1965 1966

• On February 2, 1965, King is arrested in Selma,
  Alabama during a voting rights demonstration.
• After President Johnson signs the Voting Rights
  Act into law, Martin Luther King, Jr. turns to
  the problems of poor blacks.
• On January 22, 1966, King moves into a Chicago
  slum to show the living conditions of the poor.
• In June, 1966, King and others begin the March
  Against Fear through the South.
• On July 10, 1966, King starts a campaign to end
  discrimination in Chicago.

Floyd McKissick, Martin Luther King, Jr., and
Stokely Carmichael during the March Against Fear
in Mississippi, June 1966.
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Civil Rights1967

• Where Do We Go From Here Chaos or Community? is
  published.
• The Supreme Court upholds a conviction of MLK by
  a Birmingham court. He was demonstrating without
  a permit. King spends four days in Birmingham
  jail.
• On November 27, King announces the creation of
  the Poor People's Campaign. It focuses on jobs
  and freedom for the poor of all races.

1967 Cover of Where Do We Go From Here Chaos or
Community?
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• Glenn Bolling paints of historic speeches, Kings
  accolades including the Nobel Peace Prize. The
  work also shows men who influenced and were
  influenced by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Civil Rights1968

• King declares that the Poor People's Campaign
  will end in a march on Washington. They will
  demand a 12 billion Economic Bill of Rights.
  This would promise employment to those who can
  work, money for those who cant, and an end to
  housing discrimination.
• Dr. King marches in support of sanitation workers
  on strike in Memphis, Tennessee.
• On March 28, King lead a march that turns
  violent. This was the first time this happened.
• Dr. King gives his I've Been to the Mountaintop
  speech.

Dr. Kings I've Been To The Mountain Top speech.
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Assassination1968

• At sunset on April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther
  King, Jr. is shot and killed. He was standing on
  the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,
  Tennessee.
• There are riots and disturbances in 130 American
  cities. There were twenty thousand arrests.
• Dr. King's funeral on April 9 is a global event.
• Within a week of the assassination, the Open
  Housing Act is passed by Congress.

Mourners at Dr. Kings funeral.
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• Thelma Greens painting with an image of the
  Lorraine Hotel where King was shot is also an
  epitaph as she depicts King in front of the
  "mountain top."

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Dr. Kings Legacy

• On October 19, 1983, the Senate voted to make
  Reverend, Dr. Martin Luther Kings Jr. birthday a
  national holiday.  It is the third Monday of
  January. President Regan signed the bill into
  law on November 2.
• 1986 was the first year to celebrate. A week of
  concerts, church services, school activities and
  parades took place in cities all across the
  country. 
• It wasnt until 1993 that all fifty states
  observed the holiday. Arizona and New Hampshire
  were the last to celebrate the holiday.

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Meet the Artists

• The mural I Have A Dream A Salute To The Life
  Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is a
  collaboration of six local African American
  artists Glen Bolling, Thelma Green, Granville
  Mitchell, Vonda Victor, Alice Gatewood-Waddell
  and Thomas Whitrow.
• The mural is an 18 ft. long acrylic painting on
  canvas, and each artist painted a 36 X 45 section
  of the mural representing different times in the
  life of Dr.King.

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Alice Gatewood-Waddell

• A native of Bowling Green, KY, Alice Gatewood
  Waddell has developed an artistic style that
  appears to a variety of collectors. Primarily
  known for her mixed media designs, Waddell seeks
  to incorporate positive messages regarding
  family, unity, and spiritual celebration to both
  move and inspire the viewer. A formally trained
  artist, Waddell obtained a BFA, with a
  concentration in painting, from Western Kentucky
  University. Waddell teaches art classes, gives
  private lessons, and conducts workshops for
  children and adults. Waddells work is included
  in many local and national corporate and
  organizational collections.

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Vonda K. Victor

• Victor has been part of the Bowling Green
  community for 18 years. She is a 1990 WKU
  graduate with a BA in graphic design and has
  participated in several local art exhibitions.
  She owns Monograms and More in down-town Bowling
  Green, which offers monogramming, glass etching
  and graphic design services. Victor works in
  several mediums including, acrylic paint,
  calligraphy, stained glass, and fabrics. She
  receives incredible joy from calligraphy of
  inspirational scriptures for homes and churches.
  She also produced a commissioned stained glass
  pieces for a business in her hometown of
  Hopkinsville and worked for her sorority, Delta
  Sigma Theta. One of her proudest moments was to
  provide a piece for Bishop Vashti McKenzie.

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Granville Mitchell

• Mitchell, a Bowling Green native, is a
  self-taught artist. He is an assistant ticket
  agent at the Bowling Green Greyhound Bus Lines.
  Mitchell discovered his love of painting in
  high school and he prefers working in oil.
  Mitchells vibrant work captures movement, the
  dynamic of life. You can see other examples of
  Mitchells work on display at Barnes and Noble
  through the month of February.

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Thomas Withrow

• Withrow has had many different jobs in his
  lifetime but art has always been an important
  part of his life. He received formal art
  education at Western Kentucky University, but
  developed a reputation as a portrait artist
  through trial and error, working mostly with
  pastels and charcoals.Withrow enjoys working
  with oils and acrylics, as well as
  screen-printing and occasionally sign painting.
  Withrow feels fortunate to possess a God-given
  gift that he will enjoy all his life. 

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Glen Bolling

• Bolling is a Bowling Green native and is part of
  the Western Kentucky University family. He has
  enjoyed doing art all his life. He considers
  himself a muralist and became interested in mural
  work while working as a wall painter in Michigan.
  Bolling took a couple of basic art classes when
  living in Michigan.Examples of Bollings work
  can be viewed inside at Trinity Baptist Church
  and on a wall at Ragland Lane. Bolling has
  collaborated with local artists doing mural work
  in Bowling Green including working with Delaire
  Rowe at Parker Bennett Community Center.

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Thelma L. Green

• A self taught artist, Green, a native of Warren
  County was born in Woodburn, KY. She always
  loved drawing and would practice on any found
  material including brown paper bags, cardboard,
  plaster board, and even the bedroom walls. After
  graduating from Warren Central High School she
  finished two semesters at Western Kentucky
  University.In 2004 Green took a painting class
  under Neil Peperis. The painting class reaffirmed
  her love of art as she has been painting and
  entering local art exhibitions since. Greens
  work is part of the Kentucky Museums collection
  and currently on display on the 5th Floor of
  Cravens.

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I Have A Dream A Salute To The Life Of Dr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

• This was a collaborative mural honoring the life
  of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• It was on exhibit at the Kentucky Library and
  Museum Jan. 6th Feb. 26th 2006 in Bowling
  Green, KY.