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Be a Stud Citizen - Reminders from Our Flag
for Monday, January 18, 2021
Be a Stud Citizen - Reminders from Our Flag
for Monday, January 18, 2021
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[ 1) Scroll down this page and read it to yourself or perform it aloud for your school / classroom. If reading the page to a classroom, skip any text in [ brackets ].
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[ 1) Scroll down this page and read it to yourself or perform it aloud for your school / classroom. If reading the page to a classroom, skip any text in [ brackets ].
2) Play & listen to the 'BASC' podcast as you or your classroom follow along while scrolling down this page on a device or classroom projection
or, 3) Play & watch, by yourself or with your classrooom on a projector, the screen captured short video performance of this page ]
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Today's Historical Moment from Our Flag
... celebrates the birth and life of Martin Luther King Jr. ...
(Part 2 of 2 for this MLK Jr. Day - part 1 was on Fri, Jan. 15)
... celebrates the birth and life of Martin Luther King Jr. ...
(Part 2 of 2 for this MLK Jr. Day - part 1 was on Fri, Jan. 15)
[ MLK Jr. in 1964 = public domain image
Note: MLK Jr's life info & highlights are spaced out so you can quiz yourself while scrolling down ;) ]
Note: MLK Jr's life info & highlights are spaced out so you can quiz yourself while scrolling down ;) ]
MLK Jr's Higher Education (continued):
After graduating from Morehouse College,
MLK Jr. attended Crozer Theological Society in Pennsylvania and earned a degree in Divinity in 1951.
While there, he fell in love with and intended to marry a white woman. But, his friends advised against him having an interracial marriage because of his intentions to be pastor in the South.
Next, MLK Jr. attended Boston University and earned a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Systematic Theology in June of 1955
Marriage and Pastoring:
While at BU, MLK Jr. was introduced to, dated, and married Coretta Scott in Alabama in 1953.
In 1954, MLK became Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
After graduating from Morehouse College,
MLK Jr. attended Crozer Theological Society in Pennsylvania and earned a degree in Divinity in 1951.
While there, he fell in love with and intended to marry a white woman. But, his friends advised against him having an interracial marriage because of his intentions to be pastor in the South.
Next, MLK Jr. attended Boston University and earned a doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Systematic Theology in June of 1955
Marriage and Pastoring:
While at BU, MLK Jr. was introduced to, dated, and married Coretta Scott in Alabama in 1953.
In 1954, MLK became Pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
[ MLK & Coretta Scott King holding first child, Yolanda, in 1956 = public domain image ]
MLK Jr's Civil Rights Activities (1955 - 1968):
In December, 1955, MLK Jr., with activist E. D. Nixon, planned and led the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks were arrested in separate incidents for refusing to give up their bus seat for a white passenger. The boycott ended in success when on Nov. 13, 1956, the US Supreme Court upheld the District Court ruling on the Browder v. Gayle case (lawsuit) that racial segregation on Montgomery public buses was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.
In December, 1955, MLK Jr., with activist E. D. Nixon, planned and led the Montgomery Bus Boycott after Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks were arrested in separate incidents for refusing to give up their bus seat for a white passenger. The boycott ended in success when on Nov. 13, 1956, the US Supreme Court upheld the District Court ruling on the Browder v. Gayle case (lawsuit) that racial segregation on Montgomery public buses was unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment.
[ Rosa Parks with MLK Jr. in background in 1955 = public domain image ]
In 1957, MLK Jr., along with several other civil rights activists, founded and was named President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference - a group that gathered black churches and held nonviolent protests for civil rights reform (meaning they got 1000s and 1000s of blacks to rally and call upon government leaders to give them rights equal to those of white citizens).
In early 1963, MLK Jr. was arrested for the 13th time (out of 29 total) because of his participation and leadership of the Birmingham Campaign to end racial segregation and economic injustice in Birmingham, AL. While in jail, MLK Jr., penned his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" which contained the famous quote shown below as 'Today's Inspirational Quote from Our Flag."
In early 1963, MLK Jr. was arrested for the 13th time (out of 29 total) because of his participation and leadership of the Birmingham Campaign to end racial segregation and economic injustice in Birmingham, AL. While in jail, MLK Jr., penned his famous "Letter from Birmingham Jail" which contained the famous quote shown below as 'Today's Inspirational Quote from Our Flag."
Then, later, in August of 1963, MLK Jr. cemented his place and legacy as America's leading Civil Rights activist during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. As the President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and member of the "Big Six" civil rights organizations that pulled together this epic gathering of more than 250,000 citizens in Washington, D.C.., MLK Jr. delivered one of America's greatest, most stirring speeches ever - known as his "I Have a Dream" speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial.
Again, in 1965, MLK Jr.'s SCLC helped put together a nonviolent march from Selma to Montgomery to protest voter injustices in Alabama. The first march, which MLK Jr. missed, ended in violent police beatings of marchers (public domain image of "Bloody Sunday" below). So, he led the 2nd and successful 3rd marches (public domain image below) that pushed America and Alabama to improve minority voting rights - thanks to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
In 1967 and 1968, MLK Jr., who was opposed to the war in Vietnam, mainly because it took away resources to support the uneducated and poor in America, finally spoke out at Anti-Vietnam War rallies. While speaking and protesting the war, like at the University of Minnesota below, he kept his message more in line with the civil rights and economic injustices he wanted to solve.
MLK Jr's Legacy:
On April 4th of 1968, after MLK Jr. delivered his famous "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech to support the rights of black trash workers in Memphis, Tennessee, the night before, James Earl Ray shot and killed MLK Jr.. With his death, Coretta (MLK's wife), and 4 children (Yolanda, MLK III, Dexter, and Bernice) were left to carry on his civil rights work and legacy.
At the early age of 39, MLK Jr. was gone, but his efforts to fight for blacks' voter rights, desegregation, labor rights, and more, live on through the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (see MLK Jr. behind President LBJ below) and Voting Rights Act of 1965, which addressed many of these issues.
On April 4th of 1968, after MLK Jr. delivered his famous "I've been to the Mountaintop" speech to support the rights of black trash workers in Memphis, Tennessee, the night before, James Earl Ray shot and killed MLK Jr.. With his death, Coretta (MLK's wife), and 4 children (Yolanda, MLK III, Dexter, and Bernice) were left to carry on his civil rights work and legacy.
At the early age of 39, MLK Jr. was gone, but his efforts to fight for blacks' voter rights, desegregation, labor rights, and more, live on through the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (see MLK Jr. behind President LBJ below) and Voting Rights Act of 1965, which addressed many of these issues.
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