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Martin Luther King Posters
Martin Luther King, Jr. - The Great Civil Rights Activist
 Martin Luther King Jr. 24.00x34.00in. Poster |
 Black History 24.00x36.00in. Poster |
 They Dared to Dream 8.00x10.00in. Poster |
They Dared to Dream 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King 21.00x62.00in. Poster |
 I Have a Dream - Martin Luther King 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 Inspirational Quotations - Martin Luther King Jr. 11.00x17.00in. Poster |
 MLK - Dream 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 MLK/Church 8.00x10.00in. Poster |
MLK/Church 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 King: I Have a Dream 24.00x36.00in. Print |
 Martin Luther King Jr. - Let Freedom Ring 24.00x36.00in. Poster |
 Dream of a King - `Give Us the Ballot` Speech May 17, 1957 20.00x16.00in. Print |
Dream of a King - `Give Us the Ballot` Speech May 17, 1957 32.00x24.00in. Print |
 MLK and Malcolm X 10.00x8.00in. Poster |
MLK and Malcolm X 20.00x16.00in. Poster |
 Great Black Americans - Martin Luther King Jr. 17.00x22.00in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King Jr. 24.00x18.00in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King Jr. 22.00x28.00in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King - I Have a Dream 23.50x31.50in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King Jr. 8.00x10.00in. Poster |
 I Have a Dream 8.00x20.00in. Print |
 MLK/Peace 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 MLK - New Day 8.00x10.00in. Poster |
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MLK - New Day 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 He Changed the Course... 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 MLK and JFK 10.00x8.00in. Poster |
MLK and JFK 20.00x16.00in. Poster |
 Nobel Peace Prize Winners - Martin Luther King Jr. 17.00x22.00in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King, Jr. 8.00x10.00in. Poster |
Martin Luther King, Jr. 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 MLK - I Have a Dream 8.00x10.00in. Poster |
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MLK - I Have a Dream 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King (signed) 20.25x26.50in. Print |
 Martin Luther King, 1964 17.00x11.00in. Photograph |
 MLK - Dream Address 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King Jr. 16.00x20.00in. Poster |
 Martin Luther King, 1960 11.00x17.00in. Photograph |
 Martin Luther King Jr. 24.00x18.00in. Poster |
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 pastorale 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.