If you are a baseball fan, you know the name Roberto Clemente. If you aren’t, you still need to know his story and why it matters. His life was uplifting to many, yet had a tragic end. Furthermore, the story of Roberto Clemente’s death, and life, reveals much about America during the middle of the […]
Tag: Martin Luther King Jr
Robert Moses and the Civil Rights Movement
Most movements have a moral philosophy that motivates participants, and the Civil Rights Movement was no exception. The idea of nonviolence espoused so eloquently by Martin Luther King, Jr., was the ethos underpinning much of the Black struggle of the 1950s and 1960s. Along with King, one of the movement’s best philosophical minds belonged to […]
The March on Washington Had Other Speakers
Most of us remember the 1963 March on Washington for one thing only—Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. If you’re like me, you went to school assemblies about this as a kid. You heard the speech, or at least some of the famous lines from it, about King’s dream for America. You […]
The March Against Fear and James Meredith
The other major event in US history from June 6 I’d like to discuss today is the March Against Fear, a protest begun by James Meredith in Mississippi in 1966. Although it may seem rather different than my earlier memorialization of Operation Overlord (see previous blog post), there are, in fact, some connections. These two […]
The Other America and Martin Luther King
In another effort to bring attention to the issue of poverty, Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a Poor People’s Campaign to take place in 1968. The campaign attempted to reach out to the economically marginalized people in our country. This meant not only African Americans but also Native Americans, migrant farm workers, and whites living […]
The Martin Luther King You Aren’t Supposed to Know
We will forever connect the name Martin Luther King, Jr. with the civil rights movement in the United States. Because he was the movement’s most well-known and charismatic leader, this is appropriate. Our nation continues to honor King’s legacy every January with a holiday in his remembrance. However, the Martin Luther King we think we […]