This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. In a sense we’ve come to our Nation’s Capital to cash a check. One hundred years later, the Negro is still languish in the corners of American society and finds himself an exile in his own land So we’ve come here today to dramatize a shameful condition. One hundred years later, the Negro lives on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. One hundred years later, the life of the Negro is still sadly crippled by the manacle of segregation and the chains of discrimination. But one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves, who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.įive score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. Print.(transcribed directly from the video above) Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Freedom's Children : Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories. “Freedom Budget: The Promise of the Civil Rights Movement for Economic Justice.” WorkingUSA: The Journal of Labor & Society 16 (2013), 43-58. Galena: Institute for Human Rights and Responsibilities. The Nonviolence Briefing Booklet: A 2-Day Orientation to Kingian Nonviolence Conflict Reconciliation. Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2011. This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement. Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time. The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68. “The Unknown Origins of the March on Washington: Civil Rights Politics and the Black Working Class.” Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas 7.3 (2010). and Labor and Working-Class History Association. The March on Washington: Jobs, Freedom and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights. Behind the Dream: The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation. King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation. This Is the Day: The March on Washington. New York: Intellectual Properties Management Warner Books, 1998. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. Parting the Waters: America in the King years, 1954-63. Thanks to Headlands Center for the Arts for the time and space to finish the project.īaldwin, James. Thanks to Beacon Press for editing support. Thanks to Lucas Guilkey for his work on the videos, Ming-kuo Hung for editing support, and Naomi Wilson for her comments on content. Thank you to David Stein for his invaluable contributions and conversations about this history. They include: Bob Adelman, Eve Arnold, George Ballis, Martha Cooper, Benedict Fernandez, Bob Fitch, Declan Haun, Matt Herron, John Loengard, Danny Lyon, Spider Martin, Charles Moore/Black Star, Herbert Randall, Steve Schapiro, Flip Schulke, Maria Varela, and Tamio Wakayama. We have made our best efforts to credit these photographers. Thank you to the many photographers whose work has inspired much of this project and allowed these important histories to continue. King’s papers allow us to make this history available to teachers and students. Her dedication and tireless efforts in editing Dr. Jones, Kim Nalley, Wazir Peacock, and Marcus Shelby. Thank you to the interviewees: Aldo Billingslea, Clayborne Carson, Dorothy Cotton, Miriam Glickman, Kazu Haga, Bruce Hartford, Ericka Huggins, Clarence B. We extend our deep appreciation to the many people whose work and lives contributed to Freedom’s Ring. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University in collaboration with Beacon Press’s King Legacy Series. Content, Curriculum Design and Project Coordinator: Andrea McEvoy Speroįreedom’s Ring is a project of The Martin Luther King, Jr.
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