Martin Luther King Jr. - A True Historical Examination
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Martin Luther King - Nobel Lecture
Although the "I have a Dream" speech sucks all of the academic air out of the room, the Nobel speech offers a deeper reflection of Martin Luther King
What an Uncensored Letter to M.L.K. Reveals - NYTimes.com
Aside from George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King is one of the most iconic figures in US History education curricula. The "I have a Dream" speech is perhaps the single most recalled factoid ever. But how many students know that the FBI wrote an anonymous letter to Martin Luther King telling him to kill himself? How many adults know that?
Address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) Mass Meeting**
The text (and audio) of Martin Luther King's first address as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association. He was only 26 years old when this was recorded. This speech was delivered at the Holt Baptist Church on the Monday night following the Thursday arrest of Rosa Parks. The boycott was only one day old and this meeting was held to determine if there was enough support among the entire black community of Montgomery to continue. It lasted 13 months.
Mrs. Rosa Parks is a fine person. (Well,) And, since it had to happen, I'm happy that it happened to a person like Mrs. Parks, (Yes) for nobody can doubt the boundless outreach of her integrity. (Sure enough) Nobody can doubt the height of her character (Yes), nobody can doubt the depth of her Christian commitment and devotion to the teachings of Jesus. (All right) And I'm happy, since it had to happen, it happened to a person that nobody can call a disturbing factor in the community. (All right) Mrs. Parks is a fine Christian person, unassuming, and yet there is integrity and character there. And just because she refused to get up, she was arrested.
And I want to say that we are not here advocating violence. (No) We have never done that
I want to say that in all of our actions, we must stick together. (That's right) [applause] Unity is the great need of the hour (Well, that's right), and if we are united we can get many of the things that we not only desire but which we justly deserve. (Yeah) And don't let anybody frighten you. (Yeah) We are not afraid of what we are doing (Oh no), because we are doing it within the law. (All right) There is never a time in our American democracy that we must ever think we are wrong when we protest. (Yes, sir) We reserve that right
And as we stand and sit here this evening and as we prepare ourselves for what lies ahead, let us go out with the grim and bold determination that we are going to stick together. [applause] We are going to work together. [applause] Right here in Montgomery, when the history books are written in the future (Yes), somebody will have to say, "There lived a race of people (Well), a black people (Yes sir), 'fleecy locks and black complexion' (Yes), a people who had the moral courage to stand up for their rights. [applause] And thereby they injected a new meaning into the veins of history and of civilization." And we're going to do that.
MLK Talks 'New Phase' Of Civil Rights Struggle, 11 Months Before His Assassination | NBC News - YouTube
In 1967, at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, Martin Luther King spoke with NBC News' Sander Vanocur about the "new phase" of the struggle for "genuine equality."
(1955) Martin Luther King Jr., “The Montgomery Bus Boycott” The first speech of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
If we were incarcerated behind the iron curtains of a Communistic nation we couldn't do this.
Letter From a Birmingham Jail | The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute
Both an early copy of the letter and an audio of MLK's reading of the letter. Although teacher may want to take some section of the speech, at least with this version students can see it in typewritten form.
Eulogy for the Victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, 1963 – Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars
FBI director J Edgar Hoover says FBI won't protect civil rights workers - YouTube
Although this 25 minute video does include J Edgar Hoover's statement that that the FBI will not protect Civil Rights activists in the south, because the FBI is not a police agency - at this point of the recording though, Hoover explains how Communists have infiltrated the Civil Rights movement. Teachers and students in 2020 have many face palm moments of disbelief of crazy claims made - this shows there is a deep history of outlandish claims
Findings on MLK Assassination | National Archives
It is unlikely that teachers and students would believe that the FBI surveilled Martin Luther King and sent him a letter in November of 1964 suggesting that he commit suicide. This statement from the investigation of his assassination saved in the National Archives might provide enough evidence to convince them
From October 24, 1963, to June 21, 1966,<em>(43)</em> the FBI also engaged in an extensive program
of electronic surveillance of Dr. King.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.: HIS PERSONAL CONDUCT
Teachers who dig into the history they are teaching do not have to read that far to encounter the troubling reality of the total record of the past. This is a FBI document related to incidents in Oslow Norway related to Martin Luther King's Nobel Peace Prize Award.