December 2002/January 2003 Peacework
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered the following address (excerpted here) from Riverside Church, New York City, April 4th, 1967.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: Where Do We Go from Here? [2]
December 2004/January 2005 Peacework
Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered the annual report at the 11th Convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on August 16, 1967, in Atlanta, Georgia. This is an excerpt on his talk, including the vocal responses from those in attendance. The full speech may be read at www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications [3] © The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King's Tribute to Gandhi [4]
from September 2006 Peacework
This tribute, marking the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Mohandas Gandhi, appeared jointly in the Hindustan Times and Peace News on January 30, 1958. It is excerpted from the Papers of Martin Luther King website, www.stanford.edu/group/King [5], © The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr.
MLK Speech Before the Youth March for Integrated Schools [6]
from December 1998-January 1999 Peacework
On 18 April 1959, Martin Luther King, along with several other civil rights leaders, including Daisy Bates, Harry Belafonte, A. Philip Randolph, Jackie Robinson, and Roy Wilkins, spoke before 26,000 black high school and college students who had come to the nation's capital to demonstrate their support for the 1954 Supreme Court decision against racial segregation in the nation's public schools. This was the second consecutive year that such a march was held. The first march, with 10,000 students present, was held on 25 October 1958. Liberal Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois had the texts of the march's speeches placed in the Congressional Record.
Remembering Tony Henry And a Generation of Leaders [7]
April 2008 Peacework
By Keith Harvey
We need to remember that the dream was not just Dr. King's, but belongs to the many, many people who gave their time, their energy -- even their lives -- to achieve this powerful vision.
Seeking Work and Dignity King's "Second Phase" [9]
April 2008 Peacework
By Aaron Tanaka
While King's vision for winning economic rights was cut tragically short, 40 years later his call to action is undeniable.
April 2008 Peacework
By Melony Swasey
Make the Road New York is admired for its consensus-based, collective decision-making, an intensive process that builds strong, trusting relationships, leadership, and shared agreement among members.
Praying with their Feet: Remembering Abraham Joshua Heschel and Martin Luther King [13]
December 2006/January 2007 Peacework
Susannah Heschel holds the Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth. She is the editor of On Being a Jewish Feminist, which first appeared in 1983, and Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity, an anthology of essays by her father, Abraham Joshua Heschel. A. J. Heschel was born on January 11, 1907. Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929. This article is excerpted from Social Action magazine, which in turn excerpted her essay in Black Zion: African-American Religious Encounters with Judaism, ed. by Yvonne Chireau and Nathaniel Deutsch.
Freedom Riding to Canaan's Edge [14]
July-August 2006 Peacework
A review of Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice, by Raymond Arsenault and At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-1968 (third book of a trilogy by Taylor Branch) by Arnie Alpert, the New Hampshire Program Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee.
Coretta Scott King Book Awards 2006
[15]
The Coretta Scott King Award [16], honoring African American authors and illustrators of outstanding books for children and young adults, is presented annually by the Coretta Scott King Committee of the American Library Association's Ethnic Multicultural Information Exchange Round Table (EMIERT). Please also see our coverage of the 2005 award [17] and our mention of the 2004 award [18].
Millions More Movement Bars Gay Speaker at March [19]
December 2005/January 2006 Peacework
Keith Boykin is President of the National Black Justice Coalition, a civil rights organization of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and allies dedicated to fostering equality by fighting racism and homophobia, 1725 I Street, N.W., Suite 300, Washington, D.C. 20006, 202-349-3755, www.nbjcoalition.org [20]
March 2005 Peacework
Harry Belafonte, singer, actor, and activist, delivered the eulogy (slightly abridged here) at Ossie Davis's funeral on February 12, 2005, at the Riverside Church in New York City. This speech and the others given that day were played on the February 14 broadcast of the radio program "Democracy Now!" For transcripts and recordings, visit www.democracynow.org [22].
December 2004, January 2005 Peacework
United for a Fair Economy's [24] report on the degree to which racial inequities in unemployment, family income, imprisonment, average wealth, and infant mortality are actually worse than when Dr. King was killed.
Abolishing Poverty: A Declaration of Economic Human Rights [25]
July/August 2004 Peacework
Jesse Leah Vear co-coordinates POWER (Portland Organizing to Win Economic Rights). She delivered this speech, edited slightly below, at the Make Space for Peace conference on April 24, 2004, in Portland, ME. Contact POWER by calling 207.681.0035, emailing power@riseup.net [26], or by writing to PO Box 4281, Portland, Maine 04101.
Fund the Dream: A National Call [27]
July/August 2004 Peacework
Chuck Turner is a member of the Boston City Council. This is an edited version of the call posted on www.bostonsocialforum.org [28] .
Dave Dellinger Remembered [29]
June 2004 Peacework
Jay Craven is a film writer, director, and producer (The Year that Trembled). He gave this speech at a Dave Dellinger Memorial held at Montpelier Peace Park, June 5, 2004. (Part of this article claims that Dave Dellinger helped convince King to speak out against the war)
Father and Son: Seeking Alternatives to War [30]
April 2004 Peacework
Mel Duncan is Executive Director of the Nonviolent Peaceforce, an organization dedicated, "To facilitate the creation of a trained, international civilian nonviolent peaceforce. The Peaceforce will be sent to conflict areas to prevent death and destruction and protect human rights, thus creating the space for local groups to struggle nonviolently, enter into dialogue, and seek peaceful resolution" (www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org [31])
March 2003 Peacework
Veterans of the Southern Civil Rights Movement and survivors of murdered civil rights leaders and activists Martin Luther King, Jr., Vernon Dahmer, Herbert Lee, Louis Allen, Mickey Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman are asking the Supreme Court to uphold affirmative action in higher education and are telling the Court, "Don't reverse the progress we fought and sacrificed for."
King's Spirit in Memphis, Seattle, and Quebec [33]
April 2001Peacework
Jim Douglass is a peace activist and author who lives in Birmingham, Alabama. His most recent book is The Nonviolent Coming of God (Orbis 1991). Here, he reflects on the Seattle World Trade Organization protests of 1999, the 1999 jury trial regarding the assassination of King, and the conjoined legacies of King and Malcolm X.
Selma, 1965 and 2000: Stories of Struggle and Strength [34]
February 2001 Peacework
Susan Starr, a community minister affiliated with the First Unitarian Church of Oakland, CA, is Senior Research Associate at the Applied Research Center [35], which focuses on racial justice, advocacy, and public policy and publishes ColorLines.
Justice is What Love Sounds Like: The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. [36]
December 2000/January 2001 Peacework
Arnie Alpert is New Hampshire Program Coordinator for the American Friends Service Committee. Here he reviews Michael Eric Dyson's I May Not Get There With You: The True Martin Luther King, Jr., and The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr., edited by Clayborne Carson with references also to A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., (edited by Clayborne Carson), and Vincent Harding's Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero.
Dodging Bullets: Building an Urban Peace Movement [37]
December 2000/January 2001 Peacework
Dominique Robinson is co-director of the AFSC Baltimore Nonviolence, Peace, and Economic Justice Program Team.
Call for a Revolution of Values [38]
October 1999 Peacework
On the Eve of the Momentous Seattle World Trade Organization Meeting, a Call for a Revolution of Values. Remarks by Arnie Alpert, AFSC staff in New Hampshire (aalpert@afsc.org [39]), at a Labor Day Breakfast, Sept. 6, 1999 where Alpert was honored for his successful efforts to have Jan. 15 recognized as an official Martin Luther King Day holiday in New Hampshire, the last state in the union to sign on to this national homage to Dr. King.
Links:
[1] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0212/021208a.htm
[2] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0412/041216.htm
[3] http://www.stanford.edu/group/King/publications
[4] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/martin-luther-kings-tribute-gandhi
[5] http://www.stanford.edu/group/King
[6] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/1298/declead4.htm
[7] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/praying-their-feet-remembering-abraham-joshua-heschel-and-martin-luther-king
[8] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/../node/125
[9] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/praying-their-feet-remembering-abraham-joshua-heschel-and-martin-luther-king
[10] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/road-test-ny-activists-create-new-poor-peoples-campaign
[11] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/../node/125
[12] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/../node/125
[13] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/praying-their-feet-remembering-abraham-joshua-heschel-and-martin-luther-king
[14] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/freedom-riding-canaan-s-edge
[15] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/coretta-scott-king-book-awards
[16] http://www.ala.org/ala/emiert/corettascottkingbookaward/corettascott.htm
[17] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0508/050827.htm
[18] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0409/040918.htm
[19] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0512/051224.htm
[20] http://www.nbjcoalition.org/
[21] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0503/050316.htm
[22] http://www.democracynow.org
[23] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0412/041217.htm
[24] http://www.faireconomy.org/
[25] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0407/040704.htm
[26] mailto:power@riseup.net
[27] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0407/040722.htm
[28] http://www.bostonsocialforum.org
[29] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0406/040618.htm
[30] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0404/040407.htm
[31] http://www.nonviolentpeaceforce.org
[32] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0303/030316.htm
[33] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0104/010404.htm
[34] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/0102/010205a.htm
[35] http://www.arc.org/
[36] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/1200/122k04.htm
[37] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/1200/122k13.htm
[38] http://www.peaceworkmagazine.org/pwork/1099/1004.htm
[39] mailto:aalpert@afsc.org