The couple married in 1953 and later had two sons and two daughters. He met music student Coretta Scott in Boston. program at Boston University (B.U.), in Massachusetts. In 1951, he graduated with honors and was class valedictorian. He went on to study religion at Crozer Theological Seminary, in Chester, Pennsylvania. In 1948, King graduated from Morehouse College, in Atlanta. King’s father led the NAACP’s Atlanta chapter. It was around that time that he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a civil rights organization. He skipped the ninth and eleventh grades and graduated from high school at 15. King attended segregated public schools in Georgia. The King children grew up in a loving home but experienced racism from an early age. Both Martin’s father and grandfather were pastors in Atlanta, Georgia. The middle-class family was very religious.
later changed his name and his son’s to Martin Luther, after the famous religious leader. was born, his parents, Michael and Alberta, gave him a different name from the one we know today. His leadership in peaceful protests helped end segregation during the American civil rights movement. (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) is considered one of history’s greatest speakers and social activists. And decent folks like us are flipping the bill.Martin Luther King Jr. There's no discipline, there's no order, there's just ten-million little colored pickaninny children running around the streets with no direction. You don't have to think too hard do you? I'll tell you what's become of our country since we spat in God's face and ignored the divine gift of slavery.
It is a history that helps us to better understand God, to comprehend His plan for humanity and to see tangible evidence of His deliverance, love and blessings.įreehold, Iowa - God-fearing brothers and sisters in Christ, I want you to think very carefully with me now. In black history, we find a narrative richly woven with the themes of the gospel. Black history is not merely the history of African Americans it is our history as the American people, and our history impacts the church. Woodson initiated Black History Month to raise awareness and acknowledge the accomplishments and influential experiences of black men and women. This is why every year the month of February is designated as Black History Month.
History gives us the ability to stop and remember significant past events that have shaped the world in which we live. Collectively they present King’s fusion of Christian teachings and social consciousness, and promote his prescient vision of love as a social and political force for change. Having been arrested for holding a prayer vigil outside Albany City Hall, King and Ralph Abernathy shared a jail cell for fifteen days that was, according to King, ‘‘dirty, filthy, and ill-equipped’’ and “the worse I have ever seen.” While behind bars, he spent uninterrupted time preparing the drafts for classic sermons such as “Loving Your Enemies,” “Love in Action,” and “Shattered Dreams,” and continued to work on the volume after his release.Ī Gift of Love includes these classic sermons, along with two new preachings. King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962. King prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963, he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love, a volume of his best-known homilies. The classic collection of sixteen sermons preached and compiled by Dr. A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings by Martin Luther King Jr.
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