King wrote at length about the moral responsibility to fight against injustice with non-violent tactics, using America’s promises, and the people’s ownership to those promises, as a guide. acknowledges the crowd at the Lincoln Memorial for his I Have a Dream speech during the March on Washington, D.C. remains as revered as ever, rightly considered as one of the most important figures in U.S. Unknown / WikiCommons Tim Marklew 5 April 2018 View Fifty years after his tragic death, Martin Luther King Jr. In his open Letter from Birmingham Jail written on Apfollowing his arrest for participating in a non-violent demonstration against segregation, Dr. NORTH AMERICA / USA / MICHIGAN Martin Luther King Jr. King returned often to a central tenet of his work: holding America and its people to the promise of “the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” to all men, a promise made by the Founders against the backdrop of the practice of slavery and the displacement of Native peoples. On August 28, 1963, in front of a crowd of nearly 250,000 people spread across the National Mall in Washington, D.C., the Baptist preacher and civil rights leader Rev. By invoking the words of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, Dr. waves to the crowd gathered during the March on Washington after delivering his I Have a Dream speech on Aug. King powerfully invoked the words and messages of the American Revolution in his calls for civil and economic rights and in speaking out against racism. Throughout many of his speeches and writings, Dr.
Over the course of MLK Weekend, the Museum honors the life, service, and legacy of Rev.
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