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"How Long, Not Long" is the popular name given to the public speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on the steps of the State Capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered this speech after the completion of the Selma to Montgomery March on March 25, 1965. [1] The speech is also known as "Our God Is Marching On!" [2]
Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence", also referred as the Riverside Church speech, [1] is an anti–Vietnam War and pro–social justice speech delivered by Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1967, exactly one year before he was assassinated.
"I Have a Dream" is a public speech that was delivered by American civil rights activist and Baptist minister [2] Martin Luther King Jr. during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, 1963. In the speech, King called for civil and economic rights and an end to racism in the United States.
— Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize 1964 acceptance speech “We are determined here in Montgomery to work and fight until justice runs down like water, and righteousness like a mighty ...
On a hot summer day in 1963, more than 200,000 demonstrators calling for civil rights joined Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
The Northumbria and Newcastle Universities Martin Luther King Peace Committee [308] still exists to honor King's legacy, as represented by his final visit to the UK to receive an honorary degree from Newcastle University in 1967. [309] [310] Northumbria and Newcastle remain centers for the study of Martin Luther King and the US civil rights ...
A homophonic variant is know justice, know peace. [20] It is used for a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Early College podcast, [21] the 2020 Know Justice Know Peace Resolution by the Denver Public Schools Board to better include persons of color in district school curriculums, [22] [23] and a U.S. Jesuit anti-racism retreat. [24]
In 2007, the Art of Peace award was given posthumously by the President's Peace Commission to Trinidad Sanchez Jr. for working for peace and justice in his lifetime. [10] For his activism on behalf of prison inmates and his involvement in social issues, Sanchez received the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Keep the Dream Alive Award." [2]