Approximately 180 people came to the Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. Holiday Program which was held at the Alabama
Veterans Museum after the walk from the downtown square on
Monday January 17th. Dr. King was born January 15th 1929 and was
assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4th 1968.
Alicia Randolph - Dr. King would feel no body on God's green
Earth should be
bullied, and everyone deserves to be treated equally.
Cameron Peek - Feels that some bullying comes from the
family life at home.
Raven Warner - Dr. King would have called a meeting to talk
with the
students about bullying and by setting up a program for them
to attend.
Claudia Bates - I believe Dr. King would have taken a stand
against bullying.
So let's stand together against bullying because it is
wrong.
April Horton - Dr. King would say we should not raise a hand
to hurt one
another but to be the shoulder to cry on or be the hands to
hold one another,
a prayer and a good friend is what we need!
Javia Warner -
Martin
Luther King Jr. would not bully anyone. He
would think that
a person should be nice to the other person. They should not
hurt others
feelings. We shouldn't talk about others behind their backs
and he would feel
we should say good things about other people.
Reginald Battles - Dr. King would think it is wrong to bully
others because
everyone has the right to feel safe and secure. No one has
the right to make
someone feel uncomfortable or scared, as a drum major for
peace I believe
Dr. King would be against any act that brings about harm and
unfairness.
Cameron Malone - Dr. King would be disturbed by the cruel
and hateful acts of
bullying. He would remove the ones being bullied from the
discouraging
environment. All students should have the opportunity to
learn without the
fear of being bullied. Replace bitterness and violence with
love and
understanding.
As our last speaker of the program, Maxine Randolph
offered insightful words of wisdom to the children and for
the rest of us as well. She said, "Yes and no are the most
powerful words you will ever say. They will determine your
destiny! Embrace your fears. Fear can be a powerful
force when it gives birth to courage to stand up for what
you know is right. Sometimes you will be the only one
standing but stand strong, stay focus, be courageous and
continue to stand for what is right. Share your passion for
nonviolence."
Teresa Todd
AthensPlus.com
January 17th 2011
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1957 King 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.
