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On June 4, 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, two months after Dr. King’s assassination. Historians believe the combination of these two deaths was a “capstone to a year marked by angry demonstrations…
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My grandmother Marianne O’Connor worked with Civil Rights leaders Clara Luper in Oklahoma City to help start the lunch counter movement there. Her daughter, my aunt Lora, has brought me to many civil rights and social…
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, “Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek but a means by which we arrive at that goal.” King’s philosophy reveals that we achieve the goal of peace through nonviolence.
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What is the best way to create effective change, civil disobedience or armed struggle? Like Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. used civil disobedience as as a means of effectuating government change on policies and…
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In Week Two, we learned that peace is far more than the absence of war and violence, but that it is a deliberate commitment to love and compassion through action.
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At the National Civil Rights Museum, we have discussed the definition of peace. While it is hard to define, we realize that peace is more than the absence of war and violence.
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Welcome to 50 Weeks of Actions! You have pledged to join us in improving our communities through peace and direct action. Over the next 50 weeks, we will explore our MLK50 platforms: poverty, better jobs & higher…