"One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on 15 January 1929.
As the grandson of the Rev. A.D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church.
After attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, King went on to study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and Boston University, where he deepened his understanding of theological scholarship and explored Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent strategy for social change.
King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and the following year he accepted the pastorate at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King received his Ph.D. in systematic theology in 1955.
In late 1967, King initiated a Poor People's Campaign designed to confront economic problems that had not been addressed by earlier civil rights reforms. The following year, while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, he delivered his final address "I've Been to the Mountaintop." The next day, 4 April 1968, King was assassinated".
And a whole lot in between... Stanford University's 'The Martin Luther King Research & Education Institute'
1968
Martin Luther King was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee, in April 1968, at 39 years old.....Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles just two months later...The Tet Offensive was in 1968-- LBJ wasn't running for re-election and George Wallace, the admitted segregationist governor of Alabama, was trying to win the Democrat nomination for president--The Detroit Tigers won the World Series and OJ Simpson won the Heisman -- Tommie Smith's and John Carlos's black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics added deeply to the tension..---It was a very, very tumultuous year and sort of confusing, exciting and gripping all at the same time as a wide-eyed 15 year old. A lot of racial tension, a lot of body bags on the 6 o'clock news, and a lot of anti-war sentiment and racial demonstrations - - 1968 is a very significant year in American history...and one with a whole lot of memories...
...Happy birthday, Dr. King
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Martin Luther King & 1968
"One of the most visible advocates of nonviolence and direct action as methods of social change, Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta on 15 January 1929.
As the grandson of the Rev. A.D. Williams, pastor of Ebenezer Baptist church and a founder of Atlanta's NAACP chapter, and the son of Martin Luther King, Sr., who succeeded Williams as Ebenezer's pastor, King's roots were in the African-American Baptist church.
After attending Morehouse College in Atlanta, King went on to study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania and Boston University, where he deepened his understanding of theological scholarship and explored Mahatma Gandhi's nonviolent strategy for social change.
King married Coretta Scott in 1953, and the following year he accepted the pastorate at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. King received his Ph.D. in systematic theology in 1955.
In late 1967, King initiated a Poor People's Campaign designed to confront economic problems that had not been addressed by earlier civil rights reforms. The following year, while supporting striking sanitation workers in Memphis, he delivered his final address "I've Been to the Mountaintop." The next day, 4 April 1968, King was assassinated".
And a whole lot in between... Stanford University's 'The Martin Luther King Research & Education Institute'
1968
Martin Luther King was murdered in Memphis, Tennessee, in April 1968, at 39 years old.....Robert Kennedy was assassinated in Los Angeles just two months later...The Tet Offensive was in 1968-- LBJ wasn't running for re-election and George Wallace, the admitted segregationist governor of Alabama, was trying to win the Democrat nomination for president--The Detroit Tigers won the World Series and OJ Simpson won the Heisman -- Tommie Smith's and John Carlos's black power salute at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics added deeply to the tension..---It was a very, very tumultuous year and sort of confusing, exciting and gripping all at the same time as a wide-eyed 15 year old. A lot of racial tension, a lot of body bags on the 6 o'clock news, and a lot of anti-war sentiment and racial demonstrations - - 1968 is a very significant year in American history...and one with a whole lot of memories...
...Happy birthday, Dr. King
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