Showing posts with label People King Martin Luther. Show all posts
Showing posts with label People King Martin Luther. Show all posts

Thursday, January 25, 2018

Time mag: Monday, Jan. 18, 2010 “Martin Luther King Jr. Day” By Frances Romero

Time mag: Monday, Jan. 18, 2010 “Martin Luther King Jr. Day” By Frances Romero



"This is not a black holiday; it is a people's holiday," said Coretta Scott King after President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law on Nov. 2, 1983. But in the complicated history of Martin Luther King, Jr Day, it has only recently been a holiday for all the people, all the time.

Fifteen years earlier, on April 4, 1968, Mrs. King had lost her husband, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to an assassin's bullet. In the months after the death of the civil rights icon, Congressman John Conyers Jr. of Michigan introduced the first legislation seeking to make King's birthday, Jan. 15, a federal holiday. The King Memorial Center in Atlanta was founded around the same time, and it sponsored the first annual observance of King's birthday, in January 1969, almost a decade and a half before it became an official government-sanctioned holiday. Before then, individual states including Illinois, Massachusetts and Connecticut had passed their own bills celebrating the occasion.

The origins of the holiday are mired in racism, politics, and conspiracy. Three years after Conyers introduced preliminary legislation in 1968, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference — which King headed from its inception until his death — presented Congress with a petition signed by more than 3 million people supporting a King holiday. The bill languished in Congress for eight years, unable to gain enough support until President Jimmy Carter, former governor of Georgia and the first Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson, vowed to support a King holiday.


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Monday, September 30, 2013

Bobby Seale, Former Black Panther Leader to Speak at McDaniel College Tuesday

Former Black Panther Leader to Speak at McDaniel College Tuesday

Bobby Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966.


Bobby Seale, the former chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party, is scheduled
to speak at McDaniel College Tuesday, Oct. 1 at the Forum in Decker College Center.

Photo of Bobby Seale courtesy of bobbyseale.com

Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966. At the time, the organization was dedicated to defending African-Americans against perceived incidences of police brutality and providing a community-based network of self-help social services.

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At 6 p.m., Bobby Seale will autograph historical posters, books, and DVDs for sale. His presentation begins at 7 p.m.






Black Panthers, Malcolm X, McDaniel College, Martin Luther King, civil rights, 1960s, history, Bobby Seale, African-Americans

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Thursday, September 26, 2013

Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

Seale, former Black Panther leader, will speak at McDaniel next Tuesday

By Kevin Dayhoff, kevindayhoff@gmail.com

Bobby Seale, the former chairman and co-founder of the Black Panther Party is scheduled to come to speak at McDaniel College at The Forum in Decker College Center on Tuesday, October 1.

Photo of Bobby Seale courtesy of bobbyseale.com

Seale, who has long since renounced violence as a strategy for social change, helped found the Panthers in 1966. At the time, the organization was dedicated to defending African-Americans against perceived incidences of police brutality and providing a community-based network of self-help social services.

Seale left the Panthers in 1974 after his more militant views moderated. He subsequently endorsed a nonviolent strategy that centered upon providing community services to African Americans.

Seale was born in Dallas, Texas in 1936 but grew up in Oakland, California. Seale met Black Panther Party co-founder, Huey P. Newton while attending what was then-known as Oakland City College, now part of the Peralta Community College District, which includes Merritt and Laney College.

Both Seale and Newton were admirers of Malcolm X and his teachings and were moved by his assassination after a speaking engagement in Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. Three gunmen rushed Malcolm onstage and shot him 15 times at close range. The 39-year-old was pronounced dead on arrival at New York's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.

In the mid-1960s, a growing number of civil rights advocates were unhappy with the lack of progress in implementing integration and other civil rights reforms and many, especially young people, had begun to reject the non-violent tactics advocated by the traditional 1950s and early 1960s leaders in the civil rights movement.

After the death of Malcolm X, many of the younger African-Americans felt disenchanted and disenfranchised by the mainstream civil rights movement, and began to explore others ways to make themselves heard.

They adopted Malcolm's slogan, "Freedom by any means necessary," and began forming a network of Panther chapters throughout the country.

A McDaniel College information release reports, the Panthers developed into a militant Marxist revolutionary group that continued to gain popularity throughout the late 1960s. In 1968 membership increased from 400 members to 5,000 members and 45 chapters and branches. According to J. Edgar Hoover, the head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Panthers were the "No. 1 threat to the internal security of the nation."

Seale's lecture next Tuesday is titled, "From the Sixties to the Future," and according to McDaniel College, he “will transport the audience back to a time when the activism of hundreds of thousands of protesters created cross-cultural coalitions, numerous community programs, and an unforgettable synergy of forces. Seale will share his thoughts on how we must reach for the future and understand how all civil-human rights issues today are interconnected, interdependent and interrelated with environmental problems, political issues, and global economics.”

At 6:00 pm, Bobby Seale will autograph historical posters, books, and DVDs for sale. His presentation begins at 7 p.m.

Also see: Artist Joyce Scott to speak at McDaniel College Oct 30

Joyce Scott: The Shape I'm In

The Queen of Beadwork will share how she incorporates provocative and contentious political and social issues in her exuberant beaded sculptural forms and neckpieces.

Wednesday, October 30 at 7:00 pm, McDaniel Lounge in McDaniel Hall



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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 

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/carroll/westminster/ph-ce-eagle-archive-0421-20130417,0,4791772.story

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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Thursday, January 13, 2011

Explore Carroll: NAACP's annual MLK breakfast set for Jan. 15


WESTMINSTER -- The Carroll County NAACP chapter will host its Martin Luther King Jr. Breakfast on Jan. 15, 8 a.m. at Martin's of Westminster. The cost is $30. The speaker will be Ambassador Blango Ross, pastor of Strawbridge United Methodist Church in New Windsor. For tickets, call Bernard Jones Sr. at 410-876-2358, or Jean Lewis at 410-861-6872, or 443-386-7191 or Charlotte Brown at 410-861-7890. http://www.explorecarroll.com/community/5057/community-notices/

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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

http://www.carr.org/arts/index_files/Page441.htm

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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