[ Martin Luther Kings speeches from 1954s Montgomery Bus Boycott
to the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike. Compiled by Abdul Alkalimat,
Prof Emeritus Dept of African American Studies and School of
Information Sciences, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign]
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MARTIN LUTHER KING – A VIDEO SELECTION 1954 – 1968  
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_ Martin Luther King's speeches from 1954's Montgomery Bus Boycott to
the 1968 Memphis Sanitation Strike. Compiled by Abdul Alkalimat, Prof
Emeritus Dept of African American Studies and School of Information
Sciences, Univ of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign _

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1954

Martin Luther King Jr. 'Rediscovering Lost Values' February 28, 1954

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MLK delivers a sermon at Second Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan.
February 28, 1954

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1955

Address to the first Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), Holt
Street Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama,
December 5, 1955

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1956

I heard the voice of Jesus!...
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, January 1956

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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. personally encountered Jesus Christ
in early January 1956.  He does not make a public recorded mention of
this until 27 January 1957, when preaching at Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church, in a sermon notated by the Montgomery Advertiser, a local
newspaper.

At the age of 27, on 31 Jan. 1956, the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church
parsonage was bombed, ripping a hole through the house & front steps &
leaving a scar in the concrete which is still visible today.  His
immediate family was inside the parsonage at the time of the
explosion. Dr. King did not take to a pulpit to speak succinctly about
his personal experience with Jesus in Jan. 1956, as Montgomery
Improvement Assoc. leaders & residents were counting on him to be calm
in the face of great personal harm & adversity.  He spoke from the
pulpit before & afterwards on the words of Jesus from Matthew 5:43-45.

At the age of 29, Dr. King was nearly stabbed to death with a letter
opener on 20 Sept. 1958.  When stabbed, part of the letter opener
went close to the aorta, & some of the opener remained sticking out of
his chest. He was operated on & recovered over a period of several
weeks.

Many are familiar with the public audio recording recalling his 1956
personal encounter with Jesus from late in his sermon at Mt. Pisgah
Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, IL on 27 August 1967.  Near the
start of that sermon, he refers to Luke 12:13-21. Because of what
Jesus Christ did on the cross, Jesus is the great physician who can
heal us from all our sickness & wounds. Jesus & the Holy Spirit are
the Balm in Gilead today.

““…Even though Martin Luther King Jr., came from a line of
African American preachers in his family he was also influenced from
what he learned while attending Crozer (Theological Seminary), a
predominantly white seminary. While studying at Crozer, King would be
exposed to various styles of sermon arrangements.  Those styles
included the Jewel Sermon, the Roman Candle Sermon, & the
Classification Sermon.  The Jewel Sermon involved looking at an idea
from multiple angles. The Roman Candle Sermon contained a series of
loosely related points.  The Classification Sermon involved placing
people or things into different classes or groups. A number of
King’s sermons would fall into the Classification category which was
common to the folk preaching that African Americans were used to. From
time to time he would also show the ability to mix styles as some
preachers did.  Because Dr. King had a handle on an array of sermon
arrangement styles he would be able to reach all audiences instead of
being just able to preach to the black community…. he learned that
in order to fully interpret what was written in the Bible he had to
know the historical context in which the texts were written.  This
form of biblical interpretation enabled King to be able to relate
biblical characters & stories to the to the current time setting.

Dr. King did not take sermon preparation lightly.  Prior to The Civil
Rights movement he spent 15 hours in preparation….””  From,
“The Life & Writing of Martin Luther King Jr.,” by Terrell M.
Harris, Wesley Theological Seminary, © 2010.

      

1957

'Give Us the Ballot' Speech, Washington, DC,
May 17, 1957

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Martin Luther King addresses 20,000+ crowd at the 'Prayer Pilgrimage
for Freedom' rally in Washington, D.C. May 17, 1957

Hoping to prod the federal government to fulfill the promise of the
three-year-old Brown v. Board of Education decision, national civil
rights leaders called for a rally on the steps of the Lincoln
Memorial. Speaking last, King delivers the address "Give Us the
Ballot." Some twenty thousand people listen to three hours of
speeches, music, and testimony from southern activists.

    

1958

The Bennet College Speech 1958, Greensboro, North Carolina,
February 11, 1958

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1959

Martin Luther King Jr: The Lost 1959 Broadcast, St. Paul, Minnesota

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In 1959, Martin Luther King Jr was known chiefly for his role in the
successful Montgomery bus boycott.  It was years before his "I Have a
Dream" speech in Washington.  Long thought lost, the interview was
found and rebroadcast in 2009. In it, King sat down for his KTCA
interview with L. Howard Bennett, a civil rights leader and the first
African-American judge in Minnesota.

00:00 Introduction to "That Free Men May Live" series, Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr. and L. Howard Bennett.
01:55 Problems Black people faced in Southern States to achieving
first-class citizenship (in 1959)
04:20 1954 Supreme Court decision impacted change here and
internationally
06:15 Neighborhood and school segregation issue in Northern
Communities
08:18 Racial covenants unenforceable in the courts, but doesn't change
fixed attitudes
09:05 Migration of Southern Black people and Puerto Ricans impact on
communities, its leaders and role of government
14:51 Slavery and segregation caused bitterness
18:20 Hate hurts the hater and the hated
18:50 Love effective agent for dealing with social problems
21:27 Press toward freedom reaction, critics
23:30 White community responsibility on removing segregation,
discrimination
25:50 Seek to improve standards

     

1961

Martin Luther King's 1961 Chapman University speech, Orange,
California,
December 10, 1961

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Two years before his famous 1963 "I have a dream" speech in Washington
D.C. Martin Luther King addressed students and staff at Chapman
University. Some of his common themes can be heard in this never
before released recording of the 55 minute speech.

1961 was the year of the Freedom Rides, in which a group of 13
African-American and white civil rights activists launched a series of
bus trips through the American South to protest segregation in
interstate bus terminals.  The group encountered tremendous violence,
but also drew international attention to their cause.

On December 10, 1961, Dr. King spoke as part of the Artists Lecture
Series in Memorial Hall. His speech focused on racial justice and
nonviolent resistance.

Just days after speaking at Chapman College, Dr. King was arrested in
Georgia along with hundreds of protesters striving to end racial
segregation as part of the Albany Movement. (Martin Luther King Jr. at
Chapman
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1961

Martin Luther King, Jr., American Dream (1961 Version)
Lincoln University, Oxford, Pennsylvania,
June 6, 1961

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1962

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s 1962 Speech in New York City,
Park Sheraton Hotel, to honor the Preliminary Emancipation
Proclamation on the eve of its centennial anniversary,
September 12, 1962

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On September 12, 1962, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a speech at
the Park Sheraton Hotel in New York City to honor the Preliminary
Emancipation Proclamation on the eve of its centennial anniversary. At
a dinner organized by New York's Civil War Centennial Commission, Dr.
King spoke on the importance of the Emancipation Proclamation in
American history, arguing that the document proved that government
could be a powerful force for social justice. He urged Governor Nelson
A. Rockefeller and President John F. Kennedy to hasten integration and
progress towards full civil rights. (New York State Museum
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1963

Martin Luther King - I Have A Dream Speech, March on Washington for
Jobs and Freedom,
August 28, 1963

I Have a Dream Speech
Martin Luther King's Address at March on Washington
August 28, 1963. Washington, D.C.

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When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and
every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to
speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men,
Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join
hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last!
free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

     

1964

Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, Oslo,
Norway,
December 10, 1964

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Read the acceptance speech at nobelprize.org:
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Martin Luther King Jr. held his acceptance speech in the auditorium of
the University of Oslo on 10 December 1964.
Copyright © Norsk Rikskringkasting AS 2012

      

1967

Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence, Riverside Church, New York
City,
April 4, 1967

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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1967 speech in New York. In this speech,
he opposes violence and militarism, particularly the war in Vietnam.

   

1967

The Other America, Speech at Stanford University, Stanford,
California,
April 14, 1967

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s 1967 speech at Stanford. Here, he
expounds on his nonviolent philosophy and methodology.

      

1967

The Three Evils of Society, Speech at the National Conference for New
Politics, Chicago, Illinois,
August 31, 1967

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An almost lost Dr. King speech, from the Pacifica Archives; this
speech was given at the first and only National Conference for New
Politics. It is an amazing speech which looks at American's three
deadliest sins, War, Racism and Poverty!

     

1968

The Last Sunday Sermon of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Canterbury
Pulpit at The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the
City and Diocese of Washington, commonly known as Washington National
Cathedral, Washington, DC,
March 31, 1968

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This is the last Sunday sermon of Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King,
Jr.  He delivered his final Sunday sermon on March 31, 1968, from the
Canterbury Pulpit at The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint
Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington, commonly known as
Washington National Cathedral, 3101 Wisconsin Avenue, N.W.,
Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America.  In his
sermon, he refers to the following passages from The Word of God:
 Psalm 133; The Gospel of Saint Matthew 25:31-46; The Gospel of Saint
Luke 16:19-31; and the Book of Revelation 21:5.

Where Holy Scripture is missing where you may demand it from this
sermon, it is supported by six pivotal pieces of Holy Scripture.
 These six pieces are followed by 42 other pieces.  The first six
are as follows:

Isaiah 1:17: “Learn to do good; seek justice, correct oppression;
bring justice to the fatherless, plead the widow's cause.”

Proverbs 21:13: “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will
himself call out and not be answered.”

Galatians 6:2: “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you
will fulfill the law of Christ.”

Proverbs 3:27: “Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due,
when it is in your power to act.”

Ephesians 2:10: “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus
for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in
them.”

  

1968

"I’ve Been to the Mountaintop", Memphis, Tennessee,
April 3, 1967

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Martin Luther King Speaks! "I’ve Been to the Mountaintop" (Full)
April 3, 1968 Memphis, Tennessee. Would would become King's final
speech, he talks in support of striking Memphis sanitation workers.
 

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