Showing posts with label Diversity Martin Luther King. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Baltimore Sun: We all still have a dream 50-years after Dr. King's speech


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We all still have a dream 50-years after Dr. King's speech [Eagle Archives]

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

1:38 p.m. EDT, August 27, 2013


Members of the Carroll County chapter of the NAACP joined tens of thousands Saturday at the National Mall - at the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial - in Washington to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington.

It was at that time in the early 1960s that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) made "I have a dream" the clarion-call of the civil rights movement at a political rally called the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”

History continues to reflect upon the importance of the march on Washington in 1963. One thing remains certain, it was a pivotal moment in American history that has contributed greatly to who we are as a nation today.


Aug. 24, 2013 March on Washington tribute to the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King



The Carroll County, MD Branch of the NAACP were represented at the March on Washington on August 24, 2013 – John Lewis, Pam Zappardino, Virginia Harrison, Jean Lewis, Anna-Maria Halstead, Charles Harrison, Cheron Harris, Xiomara Pierre, Charles Collyer and Kevin Earl Dayhoff at March on Washington - 50Th Anniversary.

It was a day of camaraderie – for folks from all over the nation to come together and hear an amazing group of speakers that included Rep. John Lewis, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King III, Eric Holder, Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Myrlie Evers Williams, Al Sharpton, Steny Hoyer, Ed Schultz, Denise King, Joseph Lowery, CT Vivan, representatives of the Human Rights Campaign, the National Council of LaRaza, the AFT, the NEA and many, many more.




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We all still have a dream 50-years after Dr. King's speech [Eagle Archives]

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

1:38 p.m. EDT, August 27, 2013


Members of the Carroll County chapter of the NAACP joined tens of thousands Saturday at the National Mall - at the Reflecting Pool and the Lincoln Memorial - in Washington to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the August 28, 1963 March on Washington.

It was at that time in the early 1960s that the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) made "I have a dream" the clarion-call of the civil rights movement at a political rally called the “March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.”

History continues to reflect upon the importance of the march on Washington in 1963. One thing remains certain, it was a pivotal moment in American history that has contributed greatly to who we are as a nation today.

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Sunday, August 25, 2013

The Carroll County, MD Branch of the NAACP represented at the March on Washington on Aug. 24, 2013

The Carroll County, MD Branch of the NAACP represented at the March on Washington on Aug. 24, 2013

The Carroll County, MD Branch of the NAACP represented at the March on Washington on August 24, 2013 – John Lewis, Pam Zappardino, Virginia Harrison, Jean Lewis, Anna-Maria Halstead, Charles Harrison, Cheron Harris, Xiomara Pierre, Charles Collyer and Kevin Earl Dayhoff at March on Washington – 50th Anniversary.

It was a day of camaraderie – for folks from all over the nation to come together and hear an amazing group of speakers that included Rep. John Lewis, Julian Bond, Martin Luther King III, Eric Holder, Cory Booker, Nancy Pelosi, Myrlie Evers Williams, Al Sharpton, Steny Hoyer, Ed Schultz, Denise King, Joseph Lowery, CT Vivan, representatives of the Human Rights Campaign, the National Council of LaRaza, the AFT, the NEA and many, many more.

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Wednesday, April 24, 2013

Eagle Archive: 50 years later, King's letter from Birmingham Jail reminds us of a journey too long

Eagle Archive: 50 years later, King's letter reminds us of a journey too long By Kevin E. Dayhoff, 8:53 p.m. EDT, April 21, 2013 

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On April 16, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. penned a 7,000-word letter from a jail cell in Birmingham, Ala. The letter came in response to a statement by eight white Alabama pastors on April 12, 1963, titled "A Call for Unity."

King had been arrested April 12 for demonstrating in defiance of an injunction issued against the Birmingham Campaign of marches and sit-ins, which had begun on April 3.

The white clergy members argued that the cause of civil rights was better contested in the courts than the streets of Birmingham.

King's response has become famous in the study of persuasive rhetoric in which, in part, he suggested that the "wait" requested by the white pastors — who argued that 1963 was not the time for King to pursue equal rights — really meant "never."

King also put forth that non-violent civil disobedience was an appropriate response to unjust laws, and that "one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

The letter was the origin of the now-famous argument that "injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere," and quotes Chief Justice Earl Warren, "Justice too long delayed is justice denied."

His letter also referenced a few other notables, such as Paul of Tarsus, Reinhold Niebuhr, Socrates, Paul Tillich and Thomas Aquinas.
In addition to being a man of letters, King is, of course, he's best known for speaking — the most famous example being his "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington on Aug. 28, 1963.

Closer to home, we should note that a setback to the cause of King and many of his era occurred on Nov. 14, 1963, at the lunchroom of Sykesville Mayor Bernard McDougall's drug store, where Jean S. Evans and Bailey Conaway were refused service… Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0421-20130417,0,4791772.story

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Saturday, February 2, 2013

Carroll Co Chapter NAACP, McDaniel, and Carroll Community College celebrate Martin Luther King with music


Along with 80 other folks from throughout Carroll County, including a broad cross section of local elected officials; I attended the 10th annual Carroll County NAACP Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Breakfast at Martin’s Westminster.

Recently Explore Baltimore County ran an article on the annual celebration of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King at McDaniel College… Below, please find a portion of that article and a link to the rest of the article in the Baltimore Sun.




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'Celebrating the Dream' features music with memories of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 25, 2013 ExploreBaltimoreCounty http://www.baltimoresun.com/explore/baltimorecounty/news/community/ph-ce-mlk-celebration-0127-20130125,0,5392837.story

Though Jan. 21 was a school holiday for students around the country, a number of students were on a school campus earlier this week.

McDaniel College welcomed nearly 100 Carroll County schoolchildren on Monday to the fourth annual Martin Luther King Day of celebration and reflection.

From 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., students of all ages participated in a variety of activities that celebrated King's life and provided a service to the community.

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Carroll County Community College also provided supplies for the students to make cards for senior citizens as a service project.

"We recognize Dr. King's accomplishments and methods of nonviolence and his service to the community," said Pamela Zappardino, co-director of Ira and Mary Zepp Center for Non-violence and Peace Education, about the event. "It is a day on, rather than a day off. A component of the day is doing a service project."

The center at McDaniel College was a sponsor of the event, as was the NAACP.

"These things are always fun," Zappardino said. "The kids are great."

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Monday, January 19, 2009

Civil Rights movement comes alive through art

Civil Rights movement comes alive through art

By Pam Zappardino, In the Arts Monday, January 19, 2009


Art and history are seldom in the same thought, except in nightmarish memories of darkened rooms and numbing arrays of slides. Art relates to history in a broader sense, though, interpreting, as Webster says, the “record of significant events (as affecting a nation or institution) often including an explanation of their causes.” Some view history as, well, “dead,” not relevant to their lives. Art can help change their minds.

I’ve just spent four days on the road down South visiting sites of major campaigns in the civil rights movement. History is alive there and art is its constant companion.

Walking through King International Chapel at Atlanta’s Morehouse College, I saw the gallery of portraits, folks from everywhere who have worked for peace. They came alive through their faces and through the symbols and objects with them in those paintings, explanatory panels filling in the facts.

Read more: Civil Rights movement comes alive through art

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Saturday, January 17, 2009

NAACP breakfast to celebrate King's legacy by Jennifer Jiggetts

NAACP breakfast to celebrate King's legacy by Jennifer Jiggetts

By Jennifer Jiggetts, Times Staff Writer Friday, January 16, 2009

Jean Lewis remembers the day the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.

Lewis, president of Carroll’s National Association for the Advancement of Colored People chapter, was working as a sales clerk for Woolworth’s, a retail store that used to be in Westminster.

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What: NAACP’s Sixth Annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Breakfast

Where: Martin’s Westminster, 505 Jermor Lane

When: 8 to 10:30 a.m. Jan. 17

Cost: $30

Read ms. Jiggett’s entire article here: NAACP breakfast to celebrate King's legacy

20090116 NAACP breakfast to celebrate King's legacy by Jennifer Jiggetts

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Friday, January 16, 2009

Martin Luther King and Marvin Gaye still show us the way

Martin Luther King and Marvin Gaye still show us the way

By Kevin Dayhoff

Posted on http://www.explorecarroll.com/ 1/14/09

For those who remember the push-button, dashboard AM radios in your cars in the 1960s, you may want to sit down before your read another word.

Last Monday was the 50th anniversary of the creation of Motown Records.

If you remember listening to Diana Ross and The Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Vandellas, The Miracles, The Commodores, Smokey Robinson and Stevie Wonder on WCAO, congratulations ... you are getting old.

I'm not sure what the format of WCAO is these days, but during the 1960s and well into the 1970s, it was a popular "Top 40" station in Baltimore. In fact, WCAO was one of the first radio stations in Maryland. It began broadcasting in 1922.

By the 1960s, WCAO played a little bit of everything, from The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, Steppinwolf and Cream to The Doors, Simon and Garfunkel, Glen Campbell and Percy Sledge.

However, my fondest memories are those that recall the Motown sound.

Berry Gordy, according to a "Morning Edition" segment on NPR by Ashley Kahn, was a songwriter and a former boxer when he started the record company on Jan. 12, 1959. It was first called "Tamla Records," but a year later was incorporated as Motown Record Corp.

He started it all with "an $800 loan from his family," according to a Sky News article, "Fifty Years of Motown Celebrated."

The article also noted: "Motown is seen as playing an important role in the racial integration of popular music. It was the first record label owned by an African-American to primarily feature African-American artists who achieved crossover success ...

"Gordy first signed The Matadors, who later changed their name to The Miracles, with their singer William 'Smokey' Robinson becoming the label's vice-president."

Gordy, who is now 79 years old, sold the company in 1988 for $61 million. Not a bad profit from that $800 investment.

Kahn writes that Robinson remembers the day Motown began.

"There were five people there. Berry Gordy said that day, 'We are not going to make black music. We are going to make music for everybody. We are going to make music that has great stories and great beats. We are going to write great songs.' "

And that's just what they did. They wrote great music that people love to this day. Kahn places the origins of the Motown sound into some historical context: "For black America, the 1960s were a decade filled with social protest and raw emotion -- especially in cities like Detroit. And yet this urban center produced uplifting songs of love."

This point was driven home by Jordan: "At Motown, 95 percent of the songs were written by young, black men. ... They wrote for the male and female artists, and brought to it a sense of vulnerability any English professor would be proud of. Coming out of Detroit, one of the harshest environments you could imagine, they elected to write love songs."

Perhaps as we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, we can stop and ponder the words of Marvin Gaye from "What's Going On":

"For only love can conquer hate,

You know you've got to find a way,

To bring some understanding here today ...

Talk to me so you can see,

Oh what's going on ..."

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kdayhoff AT carr DOT org.

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Friday, January 18, 2008

20080118 Westminster Eagle column: Dr. Martin Luther King's enduring words

Dr. Martin Luther King's enduring words

Westminster Eagle

01/18/08 By Kevin E. Dayhoff

American civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., wrote in a book, "Strength to Love," published in 1963:

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction. ..."

Those words are as enduring today as when written 45 years ago.

The year 1963 was a long time ago and we, as a society, have come along way toward social justice since the days of legally-sanctioned segregation.

And yet we must be constantly vigilant, as new challenges are always on the horizon.

This is especially true today as our nation continues to wallow in a political tar pit like some bellowing mastodon with a hangover. It seems these days that all issues of community, race relations, the environment and public policy quickly deteriorate into a "red versus blue" coarsening of dialogue promoted by a lack of humanity and the intellectually challenged.

Here's a well-kept secret for you -- the red versus blue thing isn't real, except as promoted by pundits and cable television stations that wish to have their way with you.

Leadership is about bringing folks together -- not promoting division.

We could use a few national leaders like Dr. King these days and it's only appropriate that we set aside time every year to attempt to reacquaint ourselves with the practice of solving our problems by cultivating nonviolence and compassion.

Because I haven't taken enough abuse recently, I'll venture to share my view that the recent discussion about Taneytown not being a "Sanctuary City" would be boring if it didn't give us a massive headache.

Please re-read the first two paragraphs.

The resolution of Taneytown is a stick in the eye for those of us who are trying to promote Carroll County as a welcoming community and family-friendly place to live and prosper.

It does little, if nothing, to address the problems of illegal immigration.

The societal and economic cost of illegal immigration is certainly a fair discussion. I mean, what part of illegal is not understood?

Nevertheless, the overall solution needs to occur in Congress, a body politic that, unfortunately, gives new meaning to "pathological dysfunctia."

Furthermore, the resolution coming at a time of the year when we celebrate Dr. King could not be more ironic.

Take a memo: xenophobia as an approach to solving complicated immigration problems is interesting in the way a septic truck running off the road, through your front flower bed and ending up on your front porch is interesting.

The resulting rhetoric, gnashing of teeth and collective hand-wringing only promotes myths and misinformation that distort meaningful debate and mute the questions that demand carefully thought-out solutions.

At this point, the only "sanctuary" I'm interested in is a sanctuary from stories like this one that will only go down as indictments of community leaders who have spent years offering solutions in search of a problem in an attempt to gain political advantage by populism.

This year we commemorate the life and work of Dr. King on Jan. 21, but he was born in Atlanta on Jan. 15, 1929.

Much of our community will come together to celebrate him this Saturday when the Carroll County NAACP will hold the fifth annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast at Martin's Westminster at 8 a.m. (If you'd like to go, call the NAACP office at 410-751-7667.)

Meanwhile, what I really wanted to write about is a persistent and perennial question from many young readers and new folks in our community:

"Who was Robert Moton?"

If you have any memories about the old Robert Moton School in Carroll County, please share them with me, so that I may include them in a future column.

Considering how angry and passionate folks are about the sanctuary city discussion, my next column may very well be written from an undisclosed location.

Hopefully it is a place that serves grits and has a good stereo system so that I can play Led Zeppelin's remake of Kansas Joe McCoy and Memphis Minnie's "When the Levee Breaks."

Anybody know what that song has to do with Robert Moton?

Kevin Dayhoff writes from Westminster. E-mail him at kdayhoff@carr.org.

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The eyes of Maryland were on the Carroll County Courthouse last Friday as oral arguments were heard in the case of Michael D. Smigiel Sr., et al, v. Peter Franchot, et al.

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Monday, January 8, 2007

20070107 MLK Legacy Day at the Carroll Arts Center

Martin Luther King Legacy Day at the Carroll Arts Center on Monday, January 15, 2007

January 7th, 2007

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Martin Luther King Legacy Day

“Ruby Bridges”

Monday, January 15 10:30 am

Free

The true story of Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white school of New Orleans. She was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, and since all the white mothers pulled their children out of class, she was the only one there at all. She faced a crowd of angry white citizens every day, yet she emerged strong thanks to encouragement by her teacher, a white woman from the North named Barbara Henry. With the help of her teacher and her mother, she eventually broke down a century-old barrier and played a significant role in the civil-rights movement.

Martin Luther King Legacy Day

Sankofa Dance Troupe

Monday, January 15 2:00 pm

$10 for adults and $7 for CCAC Members, Students 18 & Under and Seniors 60+

Colorful and energetic dancers and pulsating rhythmic drumming combine for an unforgettable experience and introduction to traditional African arts.

Martin Luther King Legacy Day

“Movies, Race and World War II”

Lecturer Tom Cripps

Sponsored by The Maryland Humanities Council

Monday, January 15 7:00 pm

Free - Advance Reservations Suggested

Cripps is a retired University Distinguished Professor Emeritus from Morgan State University. He shares his years of research and writing with audiences throughout the state. His talk, which will include screen clips from movies such as “Sahara” starring Humphrey Bogart, “Crash Dive” starring Tyrone Power and “In This Our Life” starring Olivia de Havilland, is sure to stir honest debate and reflection. The audience will learn how film was not merely a form of entertainment during WWII, but also a means of teaching and indoctrination.


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20070107 MLK breakfast scheduled for January 13

Westminster Eagle Web Update:

MLK breakfast scheduled for Jan. 13

01/03/07 – January 7th, 2007

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The Carroll County NAACP will hold its third Martin Luther King, Jr. breakfast at Martin's Westminster on Saturday, Jan. 13. The two-hour event will begin at 8:30 a.m. and precedes the national holiday on Monday honoring Dr. King.

Angela M. Eaves, Associate Judge of the District Court of Maryland in Harford County since 2000, will be the featured speaker. Judge Eaves attended high school in Texas and is a graduate of the University of Texas and its law school. Initially a prosecutor in Texas and a lawyer for the Legal Aid Bureau, she received the Pro Bono Award of the Office of the Attorney General in 1996.

She has been active in several professional committees in Maryland in the areas of family law, domestic violence and correctional reform.

Originally sponsored by graduates of the Robert Moton School, the MLK breakfast has become an annual event of the local NAACP chapter.

Tickets are $25 for adults and $10 for children 12 years of age and younger. They must be ordered by Tuesday, Jan. 9 and are available by calling 410-876-7759.

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