Mathias, Chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library, the congressional committee overseeing the procurement, said at the unveiling that "Martin Luther King takes his rightful place among the heroes of this nation." Because the bust would be such an important and visible work of art, the Joint Committee on the Library decided to have a national competition to select a sculptor. The pedestal was designed by the sculptor to follow the lines of the shoulders of the bust, creating a unified shape and enhancing the monumental effect
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: His life in pictures - Beaumont Enterprise
Jackie Robinson, former Brooklyn Dodgers infielder, now a New York restaurant chain executive, is followed by Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the Montgomery, Ala., bus boycott, as they walk in Howard University's academic procession, June 7, 1957. Jackie Robinson's impact in business, politics, and civil rights was a large part of "Jackie Robinson: An American Journey", the Coca-Cola USA-sponsored exhibition at The New York Historical Society
Young Martin received a solid education and grew up in a loving extended family.This secure upbringing, however, did not prevent King from experiencing the prejudices then common in the South. You can make it easier for us to review and, hopefully, publish your contribution by keeping a few points in mind: Encyclopaedia Britannica articles are written in a neutral, objective tone for a general audience
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC
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King heads the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) to protest the arrest of NAACP official Rosa Park for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white man. After 381 days of nearly universal participation by citizens of the black community, many of whom had to walk miles to work each day as a result, the U.S
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Black History - HISTORY.com
As more militant black leaders such as Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) rose to prominence, King broadened the scope of his activism to address issues such as the Vietnam War and poverty among Americans of all races. Activists coordinated a bus boycott that would continue for 381 days, placing a severe economic strain on the public transit system and downtown business owners
Martin Luther King Jr. News - The New York Times
16, 2012 Op-Ed article by Oxford history lecturer Stephen Tuck examines how Rev Dr Martin Luther King's legacy has been used to serve a range of purposes across the world; asserts that his legacy both at home and abroad remains profound, and as contested as ever. 14, 2015 Bernice King's lawyers square off against lawyers for estate of her father, Rev Dr Martin Luther King, as they try to resolve disputed ownership of King's Bible and Noble Prize
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
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Martin Luther King Jr. - Biography
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure
The Martin Luther King Jr Memorial
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Injustice, Anywhere, Justice Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Altruism, Whether, Light Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress
The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
JPMorgan Chase, through its Technology for Social Good program, committed its technology expertise to digitize more than one million pieces of history related to Dr. King and those of the organization he co-founded, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, as well as the records of 8 major civil rights organizations and of several individuals active in the Movement
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