Detail the distinction between just and unjust laws. Why is it important that Dr. King make this distinction?
After reading this letter, In your opinion, did Dr. King justify all the things he wrote to the clergymen? Was he correct or incorrect?
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Friday, April 11, 2014
Week of 14-18, 2014
From your prior knowledge from the reading of "Letter from the Birmingham Jail". Answer the following questions
April 11-13, 2014
Read the following biography of MLK, and answer the questions
Martin Luther King – Biography
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had been graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University; completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955 In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Source taken from:
From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970,
Martin Luther King Jr. (Article Activity)
1) Describe his Family.
2) What schools did he attend?
3) What did he accomplish in 1955?
4) After King finished school, what & where was his first job?
5) Explain the events of December 1, 1955.
6) After King was elected president of the SCLC, what was his first goal?
7) What did the Birmingham police commissioner use against demonstrators?
8) Where and when did King give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech?
9) Which President did King witness signing a Voting Rights Act?
10) Explain when and how King’s life ended.
Martin Luther King – Biography
Martin Luther King, Jr., (January 15, 1929-April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the present, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, graduating from high school at the age of fifteen; he received the B. A. degree in 1948 from Morehouse College, a distinguished Negro institution of Atlanta from which both his father and grandfather had been graduated. After three years of theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania where he was elected president of a predominantly white senior class, he was awarded the B.D. in 1951. With a fellowship won at Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University; completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and receiving the degree in 1955 In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of uncommon intellectual and artistic attainments. Two sons and two daughters were born into the family. In 1954, Martin Luther King accepted the pastorate of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Always a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race, King was, by this time, a member of the executive committee of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the leading organization of its kind in the nation. He was ready, then, early in December, 1955, to accept the leadership of the first great Negro nonviolent demonstration of contemporary times in the United States, the bus boycott described by Gunnar Jahn in his presentation speech in honor of the laureate. The boycott lasted 382 days. On December 21, 1956, after the Supreme Court of the United States had declared unconstitutional the laws requiring segregation on buses, Negroes and whites rode the buses as equals. During these days of boycott, King was arrested, his home was bombed, he was subjected to personal abuse, but at the same time he emerged as a Negro leader of the first rank. In 1957 he was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, an organization formed to provide new leadership for the now burgeoning civil rights movement. The ideals for this organization he took from Christianity; its operational techniques from Gandhi. In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience. and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address, "l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement. On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated.
Source taken from:
From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1951-1970,
Martin Luther King Jr. (Article Activity)
1) Describe his Family.
2) What schools did he attend?
3) What did he accomplish in 1955?
4) After King finished school, what & where was his first job?
5) Explain the events of December 1, 1955.
6) After King was elected president of the SCLC, what was his first goal?
7) What did the Birmingham police commissioner use against demonstrators?
8) Where and when did King give his famous “I Have a Dream” speech?
9) Which President did King witness signing a Voting Rights Act?
10) Explain when and how King’s life ended.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
April 10, 2014
Answer the following questions
1. How does the “Letter” deal with the subject of race?
2. Who is the letter’s intended audience?
1. How does the “Letter” deal with the subject of race?
2. Who is the letter’s intended audience?
April 9, 2014
Answer the following questions
1. Who is Albert Boutwell and Eugene “Bull” Connor?
2. What is their role in the letter?
1. Who is Albert Boutwell and Eugene “Bull” Connor?
2. What is their role in the letter?
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
April 8, 2014
After today's lesson on Malcolm X and MLK. Answer the following questions
Where was he from?
Why is he famous?
What does he have in common with Martin Luther King?
Monday, April 7, 2014
April 7, 2014
Read the Letter from the Birmingham Jail and Define each word
civil disobedience
ordinance
zeitgeist
interrelatedness
freedom rides
Friday, April 4, 2014
April 4, 2014
Analyze and explain what you think it means to you, and tell me who said it.
1.
“But though I was
initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to
think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the
label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: "Love your enemies, bless them
that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which
despitefully use you, and persecute you."
Thursday, April 3, 2014
April 3, 2014
Define each word (Group One and two)
anesthetizing
civil disobedience
blemish
rabble-rouser
self-purification
Define each word and write a complete sentence with each word.
(Group three)
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
April 1, 2014
Analyze the following quotes and write a paragraph explain what you think Rev. King is saying.
Remember what the Clergyman wrote to a newspaper in regards to Rev. King and his group.
Remember what the Clergyman wrote to a newspaper in regards to Rev. King and his group.
1. “My Dear
Fellow Clergymen:”
2. “Injustice
anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”
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