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Honoring Martin Luther King Jr's Life and Legacy

Today is the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington where the world first heard Dr. King's iconic "I have a dream" speech. We continue to read and hear it, and it's words still inspire a new generation to achieve the dream.

updated August 24, 2023 Monday, August 28, 2023, marks the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in Washington, D.C. According to the NAACP, more than a quarter million people participated in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, gathering near the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King, originally slated to speak for 4 minutes, went on to speak for 16 minutes,…

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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

January 14, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

You hear sometimes, now that we know the sordid details of the lives of some of our leading figures, that America has no heroes left.

When I was writing a book about the Wounded Knee Massacre, where heroism was pretty thin on the ground, I gave that a lot of thought. And I came to believe that heroism is neither being perfect, nor doing something spectacular. In fact, it’s just the opposite: it’s regular, flawed human beings choosing to put others before themselves, even at great cost, even if no one will ever know, even as they realize the walls might be closing in around them.

It means sitting down the night before D-Day and writing a letter praising the troops and taking all the blame for the next day’s failure upon yourself, in case things went wrong, as General Dwight D. Eisenhower did.

It means writing in your diary that you “still believe that people are really good at heart,” even while you are hiding in an attic from the men who are soon going to kill you, as Anne Frank did.

It means signing your name to the bottom of the Declaration of Independence in bold print, even though you know you are signing your own death warrant should the British capture you, as John Hancock did.

It means defending your people’s right to practice a religion you don’t share, even though you know you are becoming a dangerously visible target, as Sitting Bull did.

Sometimes it just means sitting down, even when you are told to stand up, as Rosa Parks did.

None of those people woke up one morning and said to themselves that they were about to do something heroic. It’s just that, when they had to, they did what was right.

On April 3, 1968, the night before the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated by a white supremacist, he gave a speech in support of sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee. Since 1966, King had tried to broaden the Civil Rights Movement for racial equality into a larger movement for economic justice. He joined the sanitation workers in Memphis, who were on strike after years of bad pay and such dangerous conditions that two men had been crushed to death in garbage compactors.

After his friend Ralph Abernathy introduced him to the crowd, King had something to say about heroes: “As I listened to Ralph Abernathy and his eloquent and generous introduction and then thought about myself, I wondered who he was talking about.”

Dr. King told the audience that, if God had let him choose any era in which to live, he would have chosen the one in which he had landed. “Now, that’s a strange statement to make,” King went on, “because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around…. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.” Dr. King said that he felt blessed to live in an era when people had finally woken up and were working together for freedom and economic justice.

He knew he was in danger as he worked for a racially and economically just America. “I don’t know what will happen now. We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter…because I’ve been to the mountaintop…. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life…. But I’m not concerned about that now. I just want to do God’s will. And He’s allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I’ve looked over. And I’ve seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!”

People are wrong to say that we have no heroes left.

Just as they have always been, they are all around us, choosing to do the right thing, no matter what.

Wishing you all a day of peace for Martin Luther King Jr. Day 2024.

[Image of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C., by Buddy Poland.]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day!

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🕯️ Celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 🕯️

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Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial - Washington D.C. - December 2021

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"At a Nashville Motel, April 5, 1968. With Mike Love, Mark Weitz (keyboardist for the Strawberry Alarm Clock), Carl Wilson and Albert Poland. The Beach Boys/Buffalo Springfield/Strawberry Alarm Clock concert, scheduled for later that night at the Municipal Auditorium, was cancelled due to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. the day before."- Stephen Stills via Facebook

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Baptist minister and social activist who became a central figure during the U.S. civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until he was assassinated in 1968. He played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African American citizens in the U.S., influencing the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among other honors.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial is the first memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to honor an African American individual. The space encourages visitors to contemplate Dr. King’s legacy: a non-violent philosophy striving for freedom, justice, and equality.

Learn more about the memorial and the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. at https://www.nps.gov/mlkm/index.htm.

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Top: Martin Luther King Jr. National Historical Park, Atlanta with sculptor Basil Watson

Bottom: The Stone of Hope - Library of Congress in West Potomac Park next to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

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Honoring Martin Luther King Jr's Life and Legacy

Honoring the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ; I visited his memorial in Washington DC last summer and share photos in this post

updated August 24, 2023 Monday, August 28, 2023, marks the 6oth anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. According to the NAACP, more than a quarter million people participated in the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, gathering near the Lincoln Memorial. Dr. King, originally slated to speak for 4 minutes, went on to speak for 16 minutes, giving one of the…

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A day in my life

by Ryan Clement Maurice Bishop (1944-1983) IF YOU ASK many people what they did on a particular day last week, let alone a few years ago, unless something remarkable or exceptional happened or occurred, it is highly unlikely that most, myself included, would be able to recall accurately the events of that week or year. That is why I was able to write about 10 October 1996 when, if only for me,…

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The Yerba Buena Gardens is the name for two blocks of public parks located between Third and Fourth, Mission and Folsom Streets in downtown San Francisco, California. The first block bordered by Mission and Howard Streets was opened on October 11, 1993.

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60 years ago today nearly a quarter-million demonstrators gathered at the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, culminating in Martin Luther King’s historic “I Have a Dream” speech

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