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MLK Legacy, Conclusion - Coggle Diagram
MLK Legacy
Controversies
Slide in Popularity
Poor People: Black and White
Vietnam War
Myths About the Man
Series from National Archives
Women
One story: Rosa Parks
Other passenger tells Bertha Butler
Butler tells Arlet Nixon
Arlet tells husband E. D. Nixon
Nixon tells white attorney Clifford Durr
Durr et al tell black attorney Fred Gray
Gray contacts Jo Ann Robinson (WPC)
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Influencers
Christianity
genesis 37:19-20
High School paper titled "The Negro and the Constitution" written 1944,
"outlines the contradictions between the nation’s biblical faith and constitutional values and the continuing problem of racial discrimination. But the conclusion is marked by a hopeful rhetorical flourish: 'My heart throbs anew in the hope that inspired by the example of Lincoln, imbued with the spirit of Christ, [America] will cast down the last barrier to perfect freedom,'"
Letter to mother written summer 1944, which he spent
"working with Morehouse College students on a Connecticut tobacco farm owned by Cullman Brothers, Inc. This, the first of four letters he wrote that summer, comments on attending a nonsegregated church in Simsbury and leading Sunday services for the other students in the program."
Application for Admission to Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester PA
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A Knock At Midnight
The Trumpet of Conscience
Racism
In 1944, on bus ride to a state high School contest, MLK had to relinquish his seat to a white passenger.
1944 letter to father from summer work in Connecticut:
"On our way here we saw some things I had never antiscipated (sic) to see. After we passed Washington the was no discrimination at all the white people here are very nice. We go to any place we want to and sit any where we want to."
1957, commenting on return to South in 1944:
"It was a bitter feeling going back to segregation. It was hard to understand why I could ride wherever I pleased on the train from New York to Washington, and then had to change to a Jim Crow car at the nation’s capitol in order to continue the trip to Atlanta.”
Written at age 17 -
Letter to the Editor of Atlanta Constitution (largest city newspaper).
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1957 National Committee of the American Committee on Africa, & also served on the International Sponsoring Committee for a day of protest against South Africa’s apartheid government. "At this crucial time, when 156 leaders of the opposition to “apartheid” are being tried for treason because they desire a democratic, multi-racial society, and when new laws injecting racism into the churches, hospitals and universities are about to be passed, we are obliged to record our protest in the hope that the Government of South Africa will respond to moral suasion."
Nonviolence
Peace
A. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story. Book 1958
B.
Nobel Prize for Peac
e 1964
C. “
Beyond Vietnam
” Speech 1967
Justice
A.
Letter from a Birmingham Jail
, April 16, 1963.
B. first public speech following Parks’ arrest,
Montgomery Improvement Association Mass Meeting
at Holt Street Baptist Church (Montgomery, Ala.)
Evolution
Principles
Interesting tidbits
He was a terrible speller. One of his professors advised "Learn to do two things: (1) Proof read and correct your ms. before submitting it; (2) How to document and check your references.”
Both of his parents were college
graduates.
5'7". Malcolm X was 6'4"
Early years
Poverty
Jobs/Wages
Economic Dream
Death
B. Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community? written in 1967
Economic Equality
Education
A. Published in Morehouse College's campus newspaper in 1947
“
The Purpose of Education
”
College paper titled "Ritual" 1948 in which he dispassionately compares rituals of sacred and secular organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan
.
G.I. Bill
Housing
A.
Fair Housing Act
Redlining
Inspiration
B. "
Mountaintop
" speech
A. “I
Have A Dream
” speech
Unexplored Sources
Teaching Resources for Black History Month
Internet Archive email "Remembering Dr. King
Introduction
why me?
Dream Deferred
Conclusion
