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Annual Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
and others who worked for freedom and justice

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Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. 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.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


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Black History website

Here's the most recent playlist for the Dr. Martin Luther King special on Lotsa A Cappella on KDHX:

Dr. King Special 2012

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photo: poster of Dr. King at Delmonico's Restaurant

ML King poster

"We must develop and maintain a sense of dignity and self respect. We must not allow anybody or anything to make us feel that we do not count. We must believe in our souls that we are somebody, that we are significant, that we are worthful; we must walk the streets everyday with this sense of dignity and this sense of self respect..."
"If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, the historians will have to pause and say, 'There lived a great people - A Black People - who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.' This is our challenge and our overwhelming responsibility."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968


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SNCC poster

Click here for the text of Dr. King's "I Have A Dream" speech.

Video excerpt and complete text of Dr. King's last speech

Long Island University's Tribute to Dr. King

Dr. M.L. King National Monument website

African American Odyssey exhibit from the Library of Congress


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on the outskirts of Montgomery

photo by Allen Zak

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Buttons made here:
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Recommended online references


photo: "His Dream - Our Dream"
- statue of Dr. King in Fountain Park, St. Louis, Missouri

His Dream - Our Dream


The King Institute includes audio and video of Dr. King's speeches

Tavis Smiley's Striving for the Dream

From Time Magazine: "I have seen the promised land"

The Seattle Times: Dr. King and the civil rights movement

Bob Herbert's column:
To Those Who Paved The Way...I Wish You Were Here

The Los Angeles Times: Historic site's keeper is living tribute to Martin Luther King Jr.

The Washington Post: MLK Memorial's "drum major" quote will be corrected



American Civil Rights

Wikipedia has a good overview. For a history of the civil rights movement in the USA from 1896-1954, click here.




For civil rights history since 1954, click here.


Rosa Parks
February 4, 1913 - October 25, 2005

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks: an appreciation by Rev. Jesse Jackson


Smithsonian Folkways Recordings

Historic recordings on the Smithsonian Folkways label:   "Sing For Freedom: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement Through Its Songs", a 70-minute CD of field recordings from Montgomery, Birmingham, Albany GA, Atlanta, Greenwood MS, and Nashville during the early 1960s; and "Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966", a double CD including songs recorded at mass meetings and many recordings of the SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) Freedom Singers and other ensembles. The booklet, written by Bernice Johnson Reagon (SNCC Freedom Singers, Sweet Honey In The Rock) includes photographs and a history of the Civil Rights movement.


The King Center

The King Center


Medgar Evers
July 2, 1925 - June 12, 1963

The King Center


Fannie Lou Hamer
October 6, 1917 - March 14, 1977

Fannie Lou Hamer


SNCC Singers - protest songs


Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)

SNCC


Pops Staples & the Staple Singers

Sweet Honey In The Rock





Steve Biko, South African martyr
December 18, 1946 - September 12, 1977

Steve Biko


Nelson Mandela, South African leader
July 18, 1918 -

Nelson Mandela

Mandela congratulates Obama


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I have a dream...

photo: "I have a dream..."
(another view in Fountain Park)


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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963


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The Dream Continues...



Young Obama Supporters
Photo by "kids4obama"


Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

~ Barack Obama, 2004 Democratic National Convention



Barack Obama speaks under the Arch, October 18, 2008
Photo by Adam

Google - honoring Dr. King
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