[416] Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King biographer and overseer of the Dr. King records at Stanford University states that he came to the opposite conclusion of Garrow saying "None of this is new. The investigation report recommended no further investigation unless some new reliable facts are presented. In the United States he is memorialized on the third Monday of January every year—Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, which was first observed as a federal holiday in 1986. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Martin-Luther-King-Jr, The History Learning Site - Biography of Martin Luther King. The white people here are very nice. [172] A local judge issued an injunction that barred any gathering of three or more people affiliated with the SNCC, SCLC, DCVL, or any of 41 named civil rights leaders. Jowers claimed to have received $100,000 to arrange King's assassination. There were several dramatic stand-offs with segregationist authorities, who sometimes turned violent. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shores, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society. Omissions? The photo still haunts us with what was lost", "What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Finally they would observe that we spend paltry sums for population planning, even though its spontaneous growth is an urgent threat to life on our planet. In some cases, bystanders attacked the police, who responded with force. Invoking his probationary plea deal, judge J. Oscar Mitchell sentenced King on October 25 to four months of hard labor. He stated, "It should benefit the disadvantaged of all races."[371]. He earned a bachelor of divinity degree in 1951. "[26] Once when King witnessed his brother A.D. emotionally upset his sister Christine, he took a telephone and knocked out A.D. with it. [39] As he grew up, King garnered a large vocabulary from reading dictionaries and consistently used his expanding lexicon. [430] In 1966, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America awarded King the Margaret Sanger Award for "his courageous resistance to bigotry and his lifelong dedication to the advancement of social justice and human dignity. [409] The FBI–King suicide letter sent to King just before he received the Nobel Peace Prize read, in part: The American public, the church organizations that have been helping—Protestants, Catholics and Jews will know you for what you are—an evil beast. In a 1965 Playboy interview, he stated that "there are as many Communists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida. It was the clearest demonstration up to that time of the dramatic potential of King and Bevel's nonviolence strategy. In 1965, he helped organize two of the three Selma to Montgomery marches. I'm not fearing any man. Scott was not interested in dating preachers, but eventually agreed to allow Martin to telephone her based on Powell's description and vouching. And he said, 'Don't you understand for the first time we're seen as we should be seen. 1946. [111], The Bureau placed wiretaps on the home and office phone lines of both Levison and King, and bugged King's rooms in hotels as he traveled across the country. I never came out with an endorsement. [142], King, representing the SCLC, was among the leaders of the "Big Six" civil rights organizations who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, which took place on August 28, 1963. [378], King believed Israel has a right to exist, saying "Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect her right to exist, its territorial integrity and the right to use whatever sea lanes it needs. On August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered those famous words in a speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC. My father did, but I never made one." An hour later, King died at St. Joseph’s hospital. [253], Two months after King's death, James Earl Ray—who was on the loose from a previous prison escape—was captured at London Heathrow Airport while trying to leave England on a false Canadian passport. Divisions within the black community and the canny, low-key response by local government defeated efforts. [345], Even after renouncing his personal use of guns, King had a complex relationship with the phenomenon of self-defense in the movement. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.' [138] Not all of the demonstrators were peaceful, despite the avowed intentions of the SCLC. King was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, the second of three children to the Reverend Michael King and Alberta King (née Williams). It was the angriest I have ever been in my life. He promptly responded and through his intervention the problem was quickly resolved. Nobelprize.org - Biography of Martin Luther King Jr. BlackPast.org - Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Westminster Abbey - Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia of Alabama - Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. United States History - Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. University of Kentucky - Martin Luther King Center - Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - Children's Encyclopedia (Ages 8-11), Martin Luther King, Jr. - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up). [359] At the reservation King met with all the tribal leaders, and others on the reservation then ate with them. The authorities released everyone over the next few days, except for King. In a radio address made during his final evening in India, King reflected, "Since being in India, I am more convinced than ever before that the method of nonviolent resistance is the most potent weapon available to oppressed people in their struggle for justice and human dignity. His dream sustains us yet. This included opposition by more militant thinkers such as Nation of Islam member Malcolm X. [35] Once, when stopped by a police officer who referred to King Sr. as "boy", King's father responded sharply that King was a boy but he was a man. [255] James Farmer Jr. and other civil rights leaders also called for non-violent action, while the more militant Stokely Carmichael called for a more forceful response. List of streets named after Martin Luther King Jr. Episcopal Church in the United States of America, Reparations for slavery debate in the United States, Gallup's List of Most Widely Admired People of the 20th Century. No audio record of his speech has been found, but in August 2013, almost 50 years later, the school discovered an audiotape with 15 minutes of a question-and-answer session that followed King's address. "[395] After King gave his "I Have A Dream" speech during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, the FBI described King as "the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country. Wachtel founded a tax-exempt fund to cover the expenses of the suit and to assist the nonviolent civil rights movement through a more effective means of fundraising. And I don't mind. Our visitors from outer space could be forgiven if they reported home that our planet is inhabited by a race of insane men whose future is bleak and uncertain. [257], The plan to set up a shantytown in Washington, D.C., was carried out soon after the April 4 assassination. I won't have any money to leave behind. [260] Vice President Hubert Humphrey attended King's funeral on behalf of the President, as there were fears that Johnson's presence might incite protests and perhaps violence. [254] The following day, he delivered a prepared response in Cleveland. During an April 4, 1967, appearance at the New York City Riverside Church—exactly one year before his death—King delivered a speech titled "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence. [265] Ray was quickly extradited to Tennessee and charged with King's murder. On their first phone call, King told Scott "I am like Napoleon at Waterloo before your charms," to which she replied "You haven't even met me." You know what it is. King contemplated but ultimately decided against the proposal on the grounds that he felt uneasy with politics and considered himself better suited for his morally unambiguous role as an activist.[221]. "James L. Bevel, The Strategist of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement", a 1984 paper by Randall Kryn, published with a 1988 addendum by Kryn in Prof. [355] In fact, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) was patterned after the NAACP's Legal Defense and Education Fund. [322], Veteran African-American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin was King's first regular advisor on nonviolence. [79] King became known as one of the "Sons of Calvary", an honor he shared with William Augustus Jones Jr. and Samuel D. Proctor who both went on to become well-known preachers in the black church. The bullet entered through his right cheek, smashing his jaw, then traveled down his spinal cord before lodging in his shoulder. [288], King's legacy includes influences on the Black Consciousness Movement and civil rights movement in South Africa. He was shocked by how peacefully the races mixed in the North. King believed that capitalism could not adequately provide the necessities of many American people, particularly the African-American community. [271] Supporters of this assertion said that Ray's confession was given under pressure and that he had been threatened with the death penalty. The unexpected ending of this second march aroused the surprise and anger of many within the local movement. Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and ’60s. [321], In 1959, King published a short book called The Measure of A Man, which contained his sermons "What is Man?" Hundreds of the marchers were arrested and jailed. "[210][211], The "Beyond Vietnam" speech reflected King's evolving political advocacy in his later years, which paralleled the teachings of the progressive Highlander Research and Education Center, with which he was affiliated. On March 7, 1961, a group of Black elders including King notified student leaders that a deal had been reached: the city's lunch counters would desegregate in fall 1961, in conjunction with the court-mandated desegregation of schools. [157] More than a quarter of a million people of diverse ethnicities attended the event, sprawling from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial onto the National Mall and around the reflecting pool. Dr. King and the 1968 strike April 4 will mark the 53rd anniversary of the assassination of the Rev. This secure upbringing, however, did not prevent King from experiencing the prejudices then common in the South. ", The black revolution is much more than a struggle for the rights of Negroes. The finest negro is at the mercy of the meanest white man. Especially since he was crazy about dances, and just about the best jitterbug in town. King's Alabama license was still valid, and Georgia law did not mandate any time limit for issuing a local license. King's flight to Memphis had been delayed by a bomb threat against his plane. [361], As the leader of the SCLC, King maintained a policy of not publicly endorsing a U.S. political party or candidate: "I feel someone must remain in the position of non-alignment, so that he can look objectively at both parties and be the conscience of both—not the servant or master of either. Lew said that while Lincoln would remain on the front of the $5 bill, the reverse would be redesigned to depict various historical events that had occurred at the Lincoln Memorial. [46] That year, King skipped the ninth grade and was enrolled in Booker T. Washington High School, where he maintained a B-plus average. [70][73][71], He played freshman football there. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s commitment to human rights, community service, and nonviolence-and his inherent and charismatic ability to spread the gospel across physical, racial, and economic barriers-was instrumental in pushing the civil rights movement in America along the path to truth and enlightenment. And I believe everyone has a duty to be in both the civil-rights and peace movements. There is no human circumstance more tragic than the persisting existence of a harmful condition for which a remedy is readily available. While studying at Boston University, he asked a friend from Atlanta named Mary Powell, who was a student at the New England Conservatory of Music, if she knew any nice Southern girls. “Negroes and whites go [to] the same church,” he noted in a letter to his parents. [421] Immediately following the shooting, officers rushed out of the station to the motel. At Morehouse, King favoured studies in medicine and law, but these were eclipsed in his senior year by a decision to enter the ministry, as his father had urged. [130], After nearly a year of intense activism with few tangible results, the movement began to deteriorate. However, the negotiations failed and sit-ins and boycotts resumed in full swing for several months. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land. [279], In 2000, the U.S. Department of Justice completed the investigation into Jowers' claims but did not find evidence to support allegations about conspiracy. [284] In 2003, Pepper published a book about the long investigation and trial, as well as his representation of James Earl Ray in his bid for a trial, laying out the evidence and criticizing other accounts. [87] King received his Ph.D. degree on June 5, 1955, with a dissertation (initially supervised by Edgar S. Brightman and, upon the latter's death, by Lotan Harold DeWolf) titled A Comparison of the Conceptions of God in the Thinking of Paul Tillich and Henry Nelson Wieman. [10] Williams was of African-Irish descent. [420] Agents were watching King at the time he was shot. [264] The assassination helped to spur the enactment of the Civil Rights Act of 1968. His leadership was fundamental to that movement’s success in ending the legal segregation of African Americans in the South and other parts of the United States. [88][84], An academic inquiry in October 1991 concluded that portions of his doctoral dissertation had been plagiarized and he had acted improperly. [285][286] King's friend and colleague, James Bevel, also disputed the argument that Ray acted alone, stating, "There is no way a ten-cent white boy could develop a plan to kill a million-dollar black man. [29] Over the next year, he began to go to church events with his mother and sing hymns while she played piano. He contrasted this with the situation faced by poor Americans, claiming that Congress had merely provided "poverty funds with miserliness. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights activist in the 1950s and 1960s. [150] With the march going forward, the Kennedys decided it was important to work to ensure its success. [14][15][16] King Sr. then enrolled in Morehouse College and studied to enter the ministry. [82] The African-American students of Crozer for the most part conducted their social activity on Edwards Street. [325], King had initially known little about Gandhi and rarely used the term "nonviolence" during his early years of activism in the early 1950s. Hayling's group had been affiliated with the NAACP but was forced out of the organization for advocating armed self-defense alongside nonviolent tactics. [20] The trip ended with visits to sites in Berlin associated with the Reformation leader, Martin Luther. “I never [thought] that a person of my race could eat anywhere.” This summer experience in the North only deepened King’s growing hatred of racial segregation. We must recognize that we can’t solve our problem now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power... this means a revolution of values and other things. [256][309], King is remembered as a martyr by the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with an annual feast day on the anniversary of his death, April 4. King's father decided to openly endorse Kennedy's candidacy for the November 8 election which he narrowly won. The pressure from Kennedy and others proved effective, and King was released two days later. [301] Title VIII of the Act, commonly known as the Fair Housing Act, prohibited discrimination in housing and housing-related transactions on the basis of race, religion, or national origin (later expanded to include sex, familial status, and disability). From the pain and exhaustion of his fight to fulfill the promises of our founding fathers for our humblest citizens, he wrung his eloquent statement of his dream for America. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. [267][274] Witnesses near King at the moment of his death said that the shot came from another location. [47] They studied in this manner routinely until Christine's graduation from high school. [436] In 1963, he was named Time Person of the Year, and in 2000, he was voted sixth in an online "Person of the Century" poll by the same magazine. “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do … Martin Luther King, Jr., is known for his contributions to the American civil rights movement in the 1960s. The United States Congress was spending more and more on the military and less and less on anti-poverty programs at the same time. Martin Luther King Jr. Day was established as a holiday in cities and states throughout the United States beginning in 1971; the holiday was enacted at the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. [189][190] King's beliefs militated against his staging a violent event, and he negotiated an agreement with Mayor Richard J. Daley to cancel a march in order to avoid the violence that he feared would result. [226] In 1967, Dr. King gave a famous speech at the Riverside Church in New York City, his first to publicly question the U.S. involvement in Vietnam. [4][5][6] King's mother named him Michael, which was entered onto the birth certificate by the attending physician. His nonviolent thought was also based in the injunction to turn the other cheek in the Sermon on the Mount, and Jesus' teaching of putting the sword back into its place (Matthew 26:52). which laid out his view of how to address social issues and poverty. "[253] Johnson declared April 7 a national day of mourning for the civil rights leader. [30][33] When King relayed the happenings to his parents, they had a long discussion with him about the history of slavery and racism in America. The sermons argued for man's need for God's love and criticized the racial injustices of Western civilization. [289][290] King's work was cited by, and served as, an inspiration for South African leader Albert Lutuli, who fought for racial justice in his country and was later awarded the Nobel Prize. When no evidence emerged to support this, the FBI used the incidental details caught on tape over the next five years in attempts to force King out of his leadership position in the COINTELPRO program. His "inner urge" had begun developing, and he made peace with the Baptist Church, as he believed he would be a "rational" minister with sermons that were "a respectful force for ideas, even social protest. I want you to say on that day that I did try in my life to visit those who were in prison. King came from a comfortable middle-class family steeped in the tradition of the Southern Black ministry: both his father and maternal grandfather were Baptist preachers. [99] The boycott lasted for 385 days,[100] and the situation became so tense that King's house was bombed. [383], For his part, King adamantly denied having any connections to communism. The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Commission, a statutory and bipartisan agency of the Virginia General Assembly, was created in 1992 to honor the memory and legacy of Dr. King, and to continue his work through educational, historical and cultural programs, public policy analysis, and public discourse on contemporary issues. [56][64] The driver of the bus called King a "black son-of-a-bitch". He gave a short, improvised speech to the gathering of supporters informing them of the tragedy and urging them to continue King's ideal of nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Upper Elementary School. [1] King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). [105] King led the SCLC until his death. King spent the next three years at Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, where he became acquainted with Mohandas Gandhi’s philosophy of nonviolence as well as with the thought of contemporary Protestant theologians. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. Play it real pretty. "[74] King had concluded that the church offered the most assuring way to answer "an inner urge to serve humanity." Therefore, he enlisted the aid of additional church leaders and Walter Reuther, president of the United Automobile Workers, to help mobilize demonstrators for the cause. 1963). [281][282], In 2002, The New York Times reported that a church minister, Rev. [109], The FBI was under written directive from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy when it began tapping King's telephone line in the fall of 1963. Born in 1929, Rev. This was my first calling and it still remains my greatest commitment. [111] FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover feared the civil rights movement and investigated the allegations of communist infiltration. We go to any place we want to and sit any where we want to. He summed up this aspect by saying, "A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. King adds that he likely would have made an exception to his non-endorsement policy for a second Kennedy term, saying "Had President Kennedy lived, I would probably have endorsed him in 1964. I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. And this coalition of southern Dixiecrats and right-wing reactionary northern Republicans defeats every bill and every move towards liberal legislation in the area of civil rights. Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). King argues that the crisis of racism is too urgent, and the current system too entrenched: "We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation. The young men often held bull sessions in their various apartments, discussing theology, sermon style, and social issues. Therefore, it is necessary to deal with this problem by getting back to some of the experiences and circumstances that lead to the habit. [404] In his original wording, Abernathy had stated that he saw King coming out of his room with a woman when he awoke the next morning and later said that "he may have been in there discussing and debating and trying to get her to go along with the movement, I don't know...the Sanitation Worker's Strike. [400], The FBI having concluded that King was dangerous due to communist infiltration, attempts to discredit King began through revelations regarding his private life. You are already on the right road toward a solution, since you honestly recognize the problem and have a desire to solve it. [246] Jackson stated after the shooting that he cradled King's head as King lay on the balcony, but this account was disputed by other colleagues of King; Jackson later changed his statement to say that he had "reached out" for King. [439], American civil rights activist and leader (1929–1968), "Martin Luther King" and "MLK" redirect here. [2] FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's COINTELPRO from 1963, forward. William F. Pepper represented the King family in the trial. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. However, the organizers were firm that the march would proceed. In March 1955, Claudette Colvin—a fifteen-year-old black schoolgirl in Montgomery—refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in violation of Jim Crow laws, local laws in the Southern United States that enforced racial segregation. King's intent was to provoke mass arrests and "create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation. [37], King memorized and sang hymns, and stated verses from the Bible, by the time he was five years old. We believed that we could fight for a policy of self-determination that was consistent with U.S. law and that we could govern our own affairs, define our own ways and continue to survive in this society. Dr. Walter Womack, the president of SCLC. You have an equal role. The purpose of the Statewide Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Colorado Holiday Commission is to unify and educate communities within the State of Colorado and encourage appropriate observations, ceremonies and activities in commemoration of the federal holiday and state legal holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout all the towns, cities, school districts, counties and local governments within … In 1963, Raveling, then 26 years old, was standing near the podium, and immediately after the oration, impulsively asked King if he could have his copy of the speech, and he got it. James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped fugitive, later confessed to the crime and was sentenced to a 99-year prison term. The other leaders and organizations comprising the Big Six were Roy Wilkins from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Whitney Young, National Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; John Lewis, SNCC; and James L. Farmer Jr., of the Congress of Racial Equality. [30] His parents instructed him that it was his Christian duty to love everyone. King, M. L. Morehouse College (Chapter 2 of The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.), Reinhold Niebuhr and Contemporary Politics: God and Power, The Guardian, September 26, 2013, "Declassified NSA Files Show Agency Spied on Muhammad Ali and MLK Operation Minaret Set Up in 1960s to Monitor Anti-Vietnam Critics, Branded 'Disreputable If Not Outright Illegal' by NSA Itself,", Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War, Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers? It is observed on the third Monday of January each year. Hume, the former leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party, cited King's legacy as quintessential to the Northern Irish civil rights movement and the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, calling him "one of my great heroes of the century. "[383], In the fall of 1963, the FBI received authorization from Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy to proceed with wiretapping of King's phone lines, purportedly due to his association with Stanley Levison. [34], King witnessed his father stand up against segregation and various forms of discrimination. [240] In the prophetic peroration of the last speech of his life, in reference to the bomb threat, King said the following: And then I got to Memphis. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. King participated in a sit-in at the restaurant inside Rich's, Atlanta's largest department store, and was among the many arrested that day. Rustin resigned from the march, stating that the goals of the campaign were too broad, that its demands were unrealizable, and that he thought that these campaigns would accelerate the backlash and repression on the poor and the black. Garrow is talking about a recently added summary of a transcript of a 1964 recording from the Willard Hotel that others, including Mrs. King, have said they did not hear Martin's voice on it. ", In 2017, Newcastle University unveiled a bronze statue of King to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his honorary doctorate ceremony. [49] At the age of 13, he denied the bodily resurrection of Jesus during Sunday school. [85] In Boston, King befriended a small cadre of local ministers his age, and sometimes guest pastored at their churches, including the Reverend Michael Haynes, associate pastor at Twelfth Baptist Church in Roxbury (and younger brother of jazz drummer Roy Haynes). 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