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I’ve never seen this video.

[nbcnews]

"Spread the word!" 

"Have you heard?!" 

"We... Are going to be... A great generation!" 

MLK's granddaughter leads cheer at #MarchForOurLives in Washington, DC.

[politicalsci]

“But if a man doesn’t have a job or an income, he has neither life nor liberty nor the possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists...” 

In 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. had begun to organize the Poor People’s Campaign. It was a multiracial effort aimed at alleviating poverty regardless of race in order to build the network needed to achieve the goal of redistributing political and economic power. King had shifted his focus to these issues after observing that gains in civil rights had not improved the material conditions of life for many African Americans. Just as King was beginning this campaign he was assassinated.

In April 1968 King had answered a call from Memphis activists who needed him to help energize a sanitation workers' strike, a cause for economic justice that would be his last. King aligned with the struggle of the poor and black sanitation workers in Memphis and suggested that their struggle for dignity was a dramatization of the issues taken up by the Poor People’s Campaign—a fight by capable, hard workers against dehumanization, discrimination and poverty wages in the richest country in the world.

In his final speech King stated: “Now, let me say as I move to my conclusion that we've got to give ourselves to this struggle until the end. Nothing would be more tragic than to stop at this point, in Memphis. We've got to see it through. And when we have our march, you need to be there. Be concerned about your brother. You may not be on strike. But either we go up together, or we go down together.“

[icphoto]

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Today, we remember Martin Luther King Jr. #MLK50 📷 Dan Weiner #ICPCollections http://bit.ly/2q4brdL

[petiteclover]

Bobby and Ethel meet with the widow of Martin Luther King, Coretta Scott King at her home in Atlanta Georgia, the day before his funeral April 8th, 1968. —- Mrs. King asks Bobby to persuade Jackie Kennedy to attend, he calls her and she agrees to come.

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Timothée wearing a “The Last Poets” jumper to the AFI Awards in January. The Last Poets were a group of musicians and poets who originated during the civil rights movement shortly after Martin Luther King, Robert F Kennedy and Malcolm X had been murdered.

[thejewishmuseum]

On the 50th Anniversary of the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we remember the civil rights leader through artist Marcelo Brodsky's triptych of Dr. King marching in Selma alongside Rabbi Abraham Heschel. The historic march with King's participation, together with other Human Rights Leaders, greatly helped raise awareness of the difficulty faced by black voters in the south and the need for a Voting Right act, passed later that year.

[dzrjesus]

Today marks the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Martin Luther King Jr., American clergyman and civil rights leader, was shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968. He was rushed to St. Joseph's Hospital, and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. CST.

We will never let his dream die, all colors of humanity standing together with one mission, to do God’s will. Thank You Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. we love you.

“Only when it’s dark enough can you see the stars” - MLK