Black People : If Alive at his Monument, What would Dr King say about the State of Black America??

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Glenville High School on April 26, 1967. This is a transcript of that speech.

King spoke at three East Side schools (Glenville, Addison Junior High, and East Tech) and at the Cleveland Job Corps Center for Women that day.....

TEXT and AUDIO:
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2012/01/martin_luther_king_jr_april_26.html
Was that this year or last year cause it sounds just as fresh and relevant right now especially with the new Hip Hop generation
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Martin Luther King Jr. spoke at Glenville High School on April 26, 1967. This is a transcript of that speech.

King spoke at three East Side schools (Glenville, Addison Junior High, and East Tech) and at the Cleveland Job Corps Center for Women that day.....

TEXT and AUDIO:
http://blog.cleveland.com/pdextra/2012/01/martin_luther_king_jr_april_26.html
Very powerful God Bless you! Self and Do for Self;
 
Dr. King presented the following speech at the New York Civil War Centennial Commission’s Emancipation Proclamation Observance, New York City, September 12, 1962

Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Address

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

If our nation had done nothing more in its whole history than to create just two documents, its contribution to civilization would be imperishable. The first of these documents is the Declaration of Independence and the other is that which we are here to honor tonight, the Emancipation Proclamation. All tyrants, past, present and future, are powerless to bury the truths in these declarations, no matter how extensive their legions, how vast their power and how malignant their evil.
The Declaration of Independence proclaimed to a world, organized politically and spiritually around the concept of the inequality of man, that the dignity of human personality was inherent in man as a living being. The Emancipation Proclamation was the offspring of the Declaration of Independence. It was a constructive use of the force of law to uproot a social order which sought to separate liberty from a segment of humanity.
Our pride and progress could be unqualified if the story might end here. But history reveals that America has been a schizophrenic personality where these two documents are concerned. On the one hand she has proudly professed the basic principles inherent in both documents. On the other hand she has sadly practiced the antithesis of these principles.....

CONTINUED HERE: http://www.nps.gov/anti/historyculture/mlk-ep.htm
 

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