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Martin Luther King - Significant events
- 1954 - Brown vs. Board of Education: U.S. Supreme Court
bans segregation in public schools.
- 1956 - Montgomery buses desegregate
- 1960 - sit-in protest movement at a Woolworth's in
Greensboro, N.C.
- 1964 - King awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
- 1963 - Four girls killed Sept. 15 in bombing of the
Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Ala.
- 1963 - Medgar Evers, NAACP leader, is murdered
- 1965 - Malcolm X is murdered Feb. 21, 1965.
- 1965 - President Johnson signs Voting Rights Act
- 1968 - King is murdered in Memphis, Tenn.
Quotes
Martin Luther King on Science and Society-
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided
missiles and misguided men."
Martin Luther King on Nonviolence -
"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions
of our time: the need for humanity to overcome oppression and violence
without resorting to oppression and violence. Humanity must evolve
for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and
retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
Reference
- Seattle Times MLK
Resources
- The
King Center - "Established in 1968 by Coretta Scott King, The
King Center is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement
of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of America’s
greatest nonviolent movement for justice, equality and peace."
- National
Civil Rights Museum – "The National Civil Rights Museum
(NCRM) was opened in 1991 at the site of the Lorraine Motel in downtown
Memphis, Tennessee. The Museum exists to assist the public in understanding
the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement and its impact and influence
on the human rights movement worldwide, through its collections, exhibitions,
research and educational programs."
- The
Martin Luther King Jr. Paper's Project at Stanford University
"The King Papers Project is a research effort to assemble and disseminate
historical information concerning Martin Luther King, Jr. and the social
movements in which he participated. Initiated by the Atlanta-based King
Center for Nonviolent Social Change, the Project became a cooperative
venture of Stanford University, the King Center and the King Estate."
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