The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 32, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, January 11, 1974 Page: 1 of 24
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VOL. 32 NO. 44
Dr. arlin Luther King Jr.
By TOM WOLSFELD
“Those who adhere to the method of non-violent
direct action recognize that legislative and court or-
ders an only declare rights they can never
thoroughly deliver them. Only when the people them-
selves begin to act are rights on paper given
lifeblood.” These are the words of Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr. perhaps the greatest single figure in the
movement of the black man toward equality and dig-
nity. Non-violence was for him not only a method of
change for Blacks but away of life as a minister.
Dr. King was born in Atlanta on Jan. 15 1929.
During his early childhood he was primed for the
ministry by his father and grandfather both were
ministers. In 1944 at the age of 15 he entered
Morehouse College. After earning a degree in
sociology he decided to enter the Crozer Theological
Seminary in Chester Pa.
At Crozer for the first time in his life he found
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Non-violence a creed
himself an integrated school. He was one of only
six Black men among over 100 students. But he
graduated from Crozer first in his class was named
the Seminary’s outstanding student and was the
president of his class the first Black man ever to be
so honored.
At Crozer he also developed a fascination for
Mahatma Gandhi whose life and teachings were to
heavily influence his role as an apostle of passive
resistance.
He continued on to the Graduate School of Theology
at Boston University for his Ph. degree in
systematic theology. While studying in Boston he
met his future wife Corretta Scott and in 1953 they
were married.
Dr. King was pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church in Montgomery Ala. from 1954 to 1960. It was
then that his name came to symbolize non-violent
change and civil rights for Black Americans.
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The Montgomery Bus Boycott propelled Dr. King
and his methods of mass passive resistance into the
national spotlight. In 1955 Mrs. Rosa Parks was or-
dered by a Montgomery bus driver to move to the
back of the bus and give her seat to a white man. She
refused and was arrested. Dr. King was instrumental
in organizing the city-wide boycott of the transit
system.
In the face of grave danger during the boycott he
pronounced a principle from which he never
waivered: ‘‘We will not resort to violence. We will
not degrade ourselves with hatred. Love will be
returned for hate.”
A year later after many arrests and physical
threats the boycott successfully ended. Blacks and
Whites rode Montgomery buses on an unsegregated
basis for the first time. The experience had taught
black Americans the power of organization and the
dignity of non-violence.
This is our hope.
I have a dream...
Zjz'ew though we face the difficulties of today
and tomorrow still have a dream
have a dream that one day this nation ill rise
up and live out the meaning of its creed: “We hold
these truths to be self-evident that all men are created
equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of
Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former
slave-owners ill be able to sit down together at the
table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of
Mississippi a state sweltering with the people's in-
justice sweltering with the heat of oppression ill be
transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children ill one
day live in a nation where they ill not be judged by
the color of their skin but by the content of their
character.
I have a dream that one day every valley shall be
exalted every hill and mountain shall be made low
the rough places ill be made plain and the crooked
places ill be made straight and the glory of the Lord
shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together.
a dream
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
It was also in 1964 that Dr. King was recognized for
his efforts to bring peaceful change to America he
received the Noble Peace Prize becoming at 35 the
youngest person thus honored.
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Dr. King organized the Southern Christian Leader-
ship Conference (SCLC) in 1957 and was president.
The SCLC became the base for future civil rights ac-
tion. In 1963 they organized the March on Washington
and there on Aug. 28 King delivered his famous “I
have a dream speech. The march brought pressure
in Congress and in 1964 the Civil Rights Act was
passed.
King led numerous rotest demonstrations
throughout the South. He was frequently arrested and1
jailed. Often there was tragedy as insistent passive
resistance confronted racial hatred. In Birmingham
police used fire hoses and dogs to disperse Black
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