He directed the peaceful march on Washington, D. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. He was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times. He was awarded five honorary degrees. He was named "Man of the Year" by Time magazine in He became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks, but also a world figure. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr. On the evening of April 4, , 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.
Selected Bibliography. People Map. Home About Us Dr. January 15, - April 4, Dr. Chicago, Afro-Am Publishing Co. Bennett, Lerone, Jr. Chicago, Johnson, On April 3, , the Reverend Doctor gave his final, and one of his most memorable , speeches:. The nation is sick, trouble is in the land, confusion all around. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord. Some in attendance at his final speech believe that he had a premonition of his upcoming demise :. That would have been too heavy for us, so he softened it. He preached himself through the fear of death. He just got it out of him. He just. What evidence do you have to show that most of those arrests and dropouts are related to racism and not poor choices of the black community in general?
This is the 21st Century, not the 19th Century. All Americans now have equal opportunity, but must take advantage of our free education starting from kindergarten up through the 12th grade. This is the job of the students: to learn in order to be a productive member of society; in order to earn a decent living and to provide guidance for THEIR future generations.
The job of parents is to see that the students avail themselves of the opportunities of the public education system and take full advantage of it. If those students do not choose to take advantage of this free public education which is available to ALL races, so be it. MLK was a hero to many, especially for the Negro. Had he been any other race than Negro, the doctorate would have been rescinded.
Edythe Bagley, the sister of Mrs. King, maid of honor, and the Reverend A. King, the brother of Martin Luther King Jr. At the age of five, Martin Luther King Jr. When it was discovered that he was not the school required age of six, he was not permitted to continue going to school. At age six, he was enrolled at the David T. Howard Elementary School.
Washington High School. Because of his high score on the college entrance examinations in his junior year of high school, he advanced to Morehouse College without formal graduation from Booker T. Having skipped both the ninth and twelfth grades, Dr. King entered Morehouse at the age of fifteen. In , he graduated from Morehouse College with a B. While attending Crozer, he also studied at the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected president of the senior class and delivered the valedictory address; he won the Pearl Plafker Award for the most outstanding student; and he received the J.
Lewis Crozer fellowship for graduate study at a university of his choice. He was awarded a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Crozer in He also studied at Harvard University. From to , Dr. King was awarded numerous honorary degrees from various colleges and universities in the United States and several foreign countries. They include the following:.
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