NONVIOLENT RESISTANCE During the time of the bus boycott, King overcame arrest and other violent harassment, including bombing of his home on January 30, 1956. The inspiration of Mahatma Gandhi began to exert its influence…People who had never heard of him had become familiar with who he was. “Nonviolent resistance emerged as the technique of […]
Read More...I think all of the individuals we’ve looked at so far have stood up to be counted for some kind of cause, without fear of the consequences. Remember Oskar Schindler and how he risked his life, and spent his fortune helping Jews survive the threat of death camps? And what about Gandhi and his radical […]
Read More...In 1955 MLK became Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he earned his PhD in theology from Boston University. It was while he attended school in Boston that King met Coretta Scott, who was attending the New England Conservatory of Music nearby. They fell in love and married in June 1953. In April 1954, Dr. […]
Read More...After graduating from Morehouse College in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology, King attended Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania. Here he later graduated with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1951. At Crozer he absorbed the teachings of many inspirational leaders from the past. It is here where he first became […]
Read More...MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. (1929 – 1968) We now move on, from the holocaust and Oskar Schindler of the forties to a completely different area of the world and a different kind of history—the civil rights movement in the United States during the fifties and sixties. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and […]
Read More...During the final days of the war, Schindler smuggled himself back into Germany into Allied-controlled territory. He was by now destitute and almost unknown. Jewish relief organizations and groups of Jewish survivors were able to support him modestly over the years. When Schindler visited Israel in 1961, on the first of 17 visits, he was […]
Read More...The movie, Schindler’s List, begs the question: How can a story depicting such horrors be so beautifully done that people want to see it over and over? The movie shows how hatred for a people who were fully human, caused them to be treated worse than animals. That kind of story could be written on […]
Read More...One of the worst forms of stigma against those living with mental health challenges is not having their truth heard. Not considered credible. Not believed. Not considered as much of a person as others are. Simply because they’ve been diagnosed with a mental illness with no consideration given to how well-functioning they might be. If […]
Read More...THE KRAKOW GHETTO [1] By March 21, 1941 Germany had concentrated the remaining Jews of Krakow, as well as thousands from other towns into the Krakow ghetto. Between 15,000 and 20,000 Jews lived within its boundaries, which were enclosed by barbed-wire fences and—in places—by a stone wall. Streetcars travelled through the ghetto, but made no […]
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