Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam --A Time to Break Silence delivered 4 April 1967 at a meeting of Clergy and Laity Concerned at Riverside Church in New York City Mr. Chairman, ladies and gentlemen, I need not pause to say how very delighted I am to be here tonight, and how ...
Martin Luther King, Jr. lies in state at the R.S. Lewis funeral home in Memphis, Tennessee. Hundreds of mourners filed in on April 5, 1968, before his body was sent to Atlanta for burial. Crowds of mourners took to the streets around the country on April 7, 1968, like this crowd...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks before crowd of 25,000 in front of the state capital building on March 25, 1965 in Montgomery, Alabama. (Photo by Stephen F. Somerstein/Getty Images) DETROIT - Dozens of Southeast Michigan organizations and groups are celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. ...
By the time the papal bullExsurge Domine,condemning his views and threatening excommunication, reached Germany, Luther's position was well understood and widely supported. In a dramatic renunciation of papal authority, Luther held a public burning of the bull and of the canon law. In 1521 forma...
Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, an event that sent shock waves reverberating around the world. A Baptist minister and founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), King had led the civil rights movement since the mid-1950s, ...
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Over the past two years, as I have moved to break the betrayal of my own silences and to speak from the burnings of my own heart, as I have called for radical departures from the destruction of Vietnam, many persons have questioned me about the wisdom of my path. At the heart of ...
Photo: Popperfoto/Getty Images Martin Luther burning the Papal Bull Luther and King wanted to overturn the powers that be Frustrated by the hypocritical practices of the Church, Luther was particularly incensed by the selling of "indulgences," in which people essentially paid for the grace of Go...
Martin Luther. Since Pope Paul III convoked a Council last year, to assemble at Mantua about Whitsuntide, and afterwards transferred it from Mantua, so that it is not yet known where he will or can fix it, and we on our part either had to expect that we would be summoned also to ...
In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. wasassassinated12while he was leading a workers' strike in Memphis, Tennessee. White people and black people who had worked so hard for peace and civil rights were shocked and angry. The world grieved the loss of this man of peace. ...