All 12 Uses of
Martin Luther King Jr.
in
Black Like Me
- The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s influence, like an echo of Gandhi's, prevails.†
- Benjamin Mays, J. B. Blayton, L. D. Milton, A. T. Walden, John Wesley Dobbs, Norris Herndon of the Atlantic Life Insurance Company, banker-druggist C. R. Yates, W. J. Shaw, E. M. Martin, Rev. Samuel Williams, Rev. William Holmes Borders, Rev. H. I. Bearden, Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., and his son, Martin Luther King, Jr.—each has contributed and continues to contribute to the American dream in its best sense.†
- Benjamin Mays, J. B. Blayton, L. D. Milton, A. T. Walden, John Wesley Dobbs, Norris Herndon of the Atlantic Life Insurance Company, banker-druggist C. R. Yates, W. J. Shaw, E. M. Martin, Rev. Samuel Williams, Rev. William Holmes Borders, Rev. H. I. Bearden, Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr., and his son, Martin Luther King, Jr.—each has contributed and continues to contribute to the American dream in its best sense.†
- People like Martin Luther King, they said, were just troublemakers and subversives.
*Martin Luther King = inspiring U.S. civil rights leader who campaigned against the segregation of blacks
- Whites told their black employees, and really believed it, that the NAACP and Martin Luther King were the black man's greatest enemies.†
- With the beginning of the freedom rides, the sit-ins, the display of heroic courage and commitment on the part of many who engaged in these activities, and with the rallying around Martin Luther King's philosophy of nonviolent resistance, that feeling of despair began to change into hope.†
- When we would get together—with Dick Gregory, Martin Luther King, Sarah Patton Boyle, P. D. East, or any of the hundreds of more or less public advocates of civil rights—we compared notes and discussed this.†
- When you go back out there, will you tell your friend, Jesus Christ, and your friend, Martin Luther King—'shit!'†
- Three weeks before the assassination of Martin Luther King, I met on the West Coast with a group of black leaders to compare notes.†
- Almost ironically, the person of Martin Luther King in life and in death became the touchstone for a whole new evaluation among black thinkers.†
- But when Martin Luther King, who had been so praised in the North for the work he did in the South, came to work in the cities of the North, the very officials who had praised him sometimes led opposition to his work locally.†
- Furthermore, with the exception of nationally known black civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins, James Farmer, and others, the black male child frequently saw the adult black male as ineffectual and defeated.†
Definition:
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(Martin Luther King Jr.) inspiring U.S. civil rights leader and Baptist minister who campaigned against the segregation of blacks; assassinated (1929-1968)