Toeshoes
04-04-2008, 01:44 AM
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Today will mark the 40th Anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. A man who has an equivocal impact on the civil rights movement and nonviolent demonstrations for peace, King was a revered and respected speaker and public figure whose activism was only fully recognized and awarded by the powers that be after his death. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom nearly a decade after his assassination, and his Congressional Gold Medal also was given after he'd died.
But King always had the support of the people, and it was a tragedy felt innumerably when he was shot to death on April 4th, 1968.
According to those around King the eve of his death, his last words are believed to be, "Ben, make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_My_Hand%2C_Precious_Lord) in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty."
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, MLK's wife and fellow human rights activist and leader, passed away in January of 2006. The King Center is alive and well, however, in both of their names.
http://www.thekingcenter.org/csk/csk.jpg
You can visit The King Center and learn more about their lives' work at TheKingCenter.org (http://www.thekingcenter.org/).
Today will mark the 40th Anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. A man who has an equivocal impact on the civil rights movement and nonviolent demonstrations for peace, King was a revered and respected speaker and public figure whose activism was only fully recognized and awarded by the powers that be after his death. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom nearly a decade after his assassination, and his Congressional Gold Medal also was given after he'd died.
But King always had the support of the people, and it was a tragedy felt innumerably when he was shot to death on April 4th, 1968.
According to those around King the eve of his death, his last words are believed to be, "Ben, make sure you play Take My Hand, Precious Lord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_My_Hand%2C_Precious_Lord) in the meeting tonight. Play it real pretty."
Mrs. Coretta Scott King, MLK's wife and fellow human rights activist and leader, passed away in January of 2006. The King Center is alive and well, however, in both of their names.
http://www.thekingcenter.org/csk/csk.jpg
You can visit The King Center and learn more about their lives' work at TheKingCenter.org (http://www.thekingcenter.org/).