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Tribute To Dr. King
Birth: January 15, 1929 Death: April 4, 1968 Place of Birth: Atlanta, Georgia
Known for: Leading the civil rights movement in the United States
Advocating nonviolent protest against segregation and racial discrimination
Milestones:
1954 Selected as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in
Montgomery, Alabama
1955 Received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston Uni- 1955 Received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston Uni-
versity versity
1955-1956 Led a successful effort to desegregate Montgomery, 1955-1956 Led a successful effort to desegregate Montgomery, Al-
Alabama, buses abama, buses
1957 Helped found and served as the first president of the S1o9u5t7heHrnelpCehdrifsotuiandLaenadesersrhveipd Casonthferfeinrsctep(rSeCsiLdCe)nt of the South-
ern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
1958 Published Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery
Story
1958 Published Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
1963 Wrote 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' arguing that it was h1i9s6m3oWrarlortes'pLoenttseirbfilriotymtoBidrimsoibnegyhaumnjuJsatil,a' warsguing that it was his
moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws
1963 Delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech to civil rights
marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1963 Delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech to civil rights
marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. 1964 Won the Nobel Peace Prize
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abama, that created national support for federal voting-rights leg-
islation
1965 Organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala-
bama, that created national support for federal voting-rights legis- 1968 Was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Ten-
lation nessee
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their skin but by the content of their character.' August, 1963, in
a speech to civil rights supporters at the March on Washington. Quote: 'I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their
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I Have A Dream...
On the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. King evoked the name of Lincoln in his "I Have a Dream" speech, which is credited with mobilizing supporters of de- segregation and prompted the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
I say to you today, my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the Amer- ican dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true mean- ing of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evi- dent: that all men are cre- ated equal."
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Geor- gia the sons of former slaves and the sons of for- mer slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mis- sissippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be trans- formed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their char- acter.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullifica- tion; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be ex- alted, every hill and moun- tain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made
straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it to- gether.
This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the South with. With this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of de- spair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling dis- cords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day.
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country,
'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing.
Land
where my fa-
thers died, land
of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountain- side, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation this must be- come true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the height-
ening Al-
leghenies
of Pennsylvania!
Let freedom
ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado!
Let freedom ring from the curvaceous slopes of California!
But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!
Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Ten- nessee!
Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
And when this happens, when we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protes- tants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
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