Love is A Force...
"Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into a friend."
- Martin Luther King Jnr
transforming an enemy into a friend."
- Martin Luther King Jnr
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
was an American Christian minister and activist who became the most visible
spokesperson and leader in the Civil Rights Movement from 1955 until his
assassination in 1968. King is best known for advancing civil rights through
nonviolence and civil disobedience, inspired by his Christian beliefs and the
nonviolent activism of Mahatma Gandhi.
King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became
the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). As
president of the SCLC, he then led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against
segregation in Albany, Georgia, and helped organize the nonviolent 1963
protests in Birmingham, Alabama. He helped organize the 1963 March on
Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on
the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for
combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped
organize the Selma to Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his
focus to include opposition towards poverty and the Vietnam War. FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover considered him a radical and made him an object of the FBI's
COINTELPRO from 1963 on. FBI agents investigated him for possible communist
ties, recorded his extramarital liaisons and reported on them to government
officials, and, in 1964, mailed King a threatening anonymous letter, which he
interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide.
Before his death, King was planning a national occupation of
Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated
on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S.
cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had
been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades
after the shooting.
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Love is A Force...
Reviewed by CyberSpace2Day
on
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Rating: 5
Reviewed by CyberSpace2Day
on
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
Rating: 5
