The Fort Hood Sentinel (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 43, Ed. 1 Friday, January 10, 1975 Page: 1 of 18
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Dr. King sought change
FORT HOOD SENTINEL
“PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF THE PERSONNEL OF FORT HOOD*
FORT HOOD TEXAS FRIDAY JANUARY 10 1975
ByTOMWOLSFELD
Non-violent protest was always the mainstay of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s campaign to seek social
changes in America to better the position of this coun-
try’s black populace.
“Those who adhere to the method of non-violent
direct action recognize that legislative and court orders
can only declare rights they can never thoroughly de-
liver them. Only when people themselves begin to act
are rights on paper given lifeblood.” These words of Dr.
King describe the greatest single figure in the move-
ment he directed to gain equality and dignity for the
blacks of this country. Non-violence was for him not on-
ly a method of change but away of life as a minister.
King was born in Atlanta on Jan. 15 1929. During his
early childhood he was primed for the ministry by both
his father and grandfather each served in the
ministry before him. In 1944 at the age of 15 he entered
Morehouse College in Atlanta. After earning a degree in
sociology he decided to enter Crozer Theological
Seminary in Chester Pa.
At Crozer he found himself in an integrated school for
the first time in his life. As one of six blacks he at-
tended this seminary of more then 100 students. Yet he
graduated from Crozer first in his class was named the
seminary’s outstanding student and was the president
of his class the first black ever to be so honored.
While at the seminary King developed a fascination
for Mahatma Gandhi whose life and teachings were to
heavily influence his role as an apostle of passive re-
sistance as displayed in his leadership during the
black’s struggle for equality both socially and legally
within American society.
He continued his education in the ministry at Boston
University’s graduate school of theology where he
earned a doctor of pholosophy degree in systematic
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Non-violent boycotts marked struggle
theology. While studying in Boston he met his future
wife Corretta Scott and in 1953 they were married.
After receiving his graduate degree from Boston Un-
iversity Dr. King assumed the pastorship of the Dexter
Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery Ala. where he
served until 1960. It was during this time that his name
came to symbolize non-violent change in the quest of
black Americans’ for civil equality.
The Montgomery bus boycott propelled Dr. King and
his methods of mass passive resistance into the na-
tional spotlight. In 1955 Mrs. Rosa Parks was ordered
by a Montgomery bus driver to move the back of the bus
and to give her seat to a white man. She refused. This
led to her arrest. Dr. King was instrumental in organiz-
ing the city-wide boycott of the transit system.
In the face of grave danger during the boycott Dr.
King pronounced a principle from which he never
waivered. “We will not resort to violence” he stated.
“We will not degrade ourselves with hatred. Love will
be returned for hate.”
A year later after many arrests and physical threats
this nationally known bus boycott involving 50000
blacks ended successfully. Blacks and whites rode
Montgomery buses on an unsegregated basis for the
first time. The experience had taught black Americans
the power of organization and the dignity of non-
violence.
Dr. King organized the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957 serving as the
organization’s president. The SCLC formed the founda-
tion for future civil rights actions. In 1963 the con-
ference organized the march on Washington. There on
Aug. 28 Dr. King delivered his famous “I have a
dream speech. The march brought pressure in
Congress and in 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed.
It was also in 1964 that Dr. King was recognized for
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his efforts to bring peaceful change to American socie-
ty. He received the Nobel Peace Prize becoming at the
age of 35 the youngest person thus honored.
He led numerous demonstrations throughout the
South. Dr. King was frequently arrested and jailed. Of-
tenthere was tragedy as insistent passive resistance
confronted racial hatred. In Birmingham police used
fire hoses and dogs to disperse black demonstrators
seeking to desegregate restaurants and hotels. Dr. King
and several of his associates were jailed. It was there
that he wrote a document which expresses his moral
philosphy known simply as “Letter from a Birm-
ingham Jail”.
In order to help bring political power to the non-
violent war on racial injustice in America Dr. King or-
ganized voter registration drives throughout Alabama.
A ‘‘freedom arch” was held from Selma to
Montgomery highlighted by racial hatred and Klu Klux
Klan activities. Out of these efforts came a victory for
Dr. King and all black Americans in the form of the na-
tional Voting Rights Act.
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It was to lead another such demostration that Dr.
King was in Memphis Tenn. in 1968. He had hoped to
help striking sanitation workers most of whom were
black win their demands. On April 4 while talking to
his staff on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel he was
shot and killed by an assasin.
Dr. King had served himself his people and his coun-
try well. He had confronted bigotry and injustice
wherever he met it. But non-violence was his creed
and sit-ins boycotts and demonstrations were his tools.
As Dr. King expressed this creed “the objective was
not to coerce but to correct not to break wills or
bodies but to move hearts.”
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