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  1. 3 days ago · Lore has it that Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Cheltenham High School in the 1960s — and the event was captured on film. Within the suburban legend is a half-truth. King did speak at the high school to a sold-out audience on April 15, 1964. He visited as part of the Cheltenham Township Adult School’s (CTAS) now-defunct 5 ...

  2. 2 days ago · The quotations engraved at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, listed below, were thoughtfully selected to show many facets of King's thinking over the years. The quotes include excerpts from his Letter from Birmingham Jail, to his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, and the "I Have a Dream Speech" delivered just a short walk away at the ...

  3. 5 days ago · Mr. Bragg Jr. is the Manhattan district attorney. In September 1958, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was stabbed with a seven-inch steel letter opener. He had been autographing copies of his ...

  4. 1 day ago · Discover the pivotal moment in civil rights history with the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. Shot by James E...

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  5. 2 days ago · April 16, 1963. Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his “ Letter from Birmingham Jail ” on scraps of paper and in the margins of newspapers. “I am in Birmingham because injustice is here,” he wrote. Jail trusties passed his words to his lawyers, who transformed the handwriting into a 21-page typed letter to eight white clergymen who had ...

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  7. 3 days ago · Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., at the end of a rainy civil rights march in Chicago, Aug. 22, 1966, and the outside of Cheltenham Township Adult School's 1964 Spring Term catalog, which previews a ...

  8. 2 days ago · Martin Luther King Jr. wrote his "Letter from Birmingham Jail" in 1963, George Washington left Mount Vernon for his inauguration in New York in 1789, Charles Chaplin was born in London in 1889, a Soviet submarine torpedoed and sank the MV Goya in 1945, and a cargo ship exploded and killed nearly 600 people in 1947.

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