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Jan 14, 2018 · 50 years later, 'The Other America' MLK described in Grosse Pointe still exists. Fifty years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered at Grosse Pointe High School a stirring speech entitled ...
Jan 8, 2022 · This speech is known as “The Other America.”. This speech highlighted the poverty gap in the United States and social and economic inequality in the nation. Continue reading on the next page ...
Jan 19, 2015 · On April 14, 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech at Stanford University. During this time, which was about one year before King’s death, Dr. King’s movement addressed a range of issues, including race, Vietnam, poverty, and economic justice. This speech at Stanford would become known as “The Other America” speech, and King ...
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s less than thirteen years of nonviolent leadership ended abruptly and tragically on April 4th, 1968, when he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. Dr. King’s body was returned to his hometown of Atlanta, Georgia, where his funeral ceremony was attended by high-level leaders of all races ...
Jan 17, 2022 · Martin Luther King Jr. presented his 'Other America' speech in 1967 to highlight disparities among Black and white Americans and to call on Congress to pass fair housing legislation.
May 29, 2020 · And as long as America postpones justice, we stand in the position of having these recurrences of violence and riots over and over again. [Martin Luther King Jr., "The Other America"]
