Happy Birthday, Martin Luther King. From a Dream to a Reality.

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Rosa Sat: So Martin Could Walk
Martin Walked: So that Obama Could Run
Obama Ran: So that We Could Soar!

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Thank You, Martin Luther King.

[freshwest]

1. You have the 4 men here that I always cry when I see their faces and hear their voices.

[sheshe2]

3. Great Men, and a Tribute to Our Country.

They have inspired us with their passion, our passion, to right the wrongs.

Such beautiful souls.

I really love the picture of Rosa, and Martin standing in the background. I know you are aware of the history, however I will post this:

Montgomery Bus Boycott

On the evening Rosa Parks was arrested, E.D. Nixon, head of the local chapter of the NAACP, began plans to organize a boycott of Montgomery's city buses. Ads were placed in local papers and handbills were printed and distributed in black neighborhoods. Members of the African-American community were asked to stay off the buses Monday, December 5 th in protest of Rosa's arrest. People were encouraged to stay home from work or school, take a cab or walk to work. With most of the African-American community not riding the bus, organizers believed a longer boycott might be successful.

On Monday, December 5, 1955, a group of African-American community leaders gathered at Mt. Zion Church to discuss strategies. They determined that the effort required a new organization and strong leadership. They formed the "Montgomery Improvement Association" (MIA) and elected Montgomery newcomer Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church. The MIA believed that Rosa Parks' case provided an excellent opportunity to take further action to create real change.

With the success of Monday's refusal to ride the buses, the boycott continued. Some people carpooled. Others rode in African-American-operated cabs. Most of the estimated 40,000 African-American commuters walked, some as far as 20 miles to get to work.

Dozens of the Montgomery public buses sat idle for months, severely crippling the transit company's finances. But the boycott faced strong resistance, with some segregationists retaliating with violence. Black churches were burned and both Martin Luther King,Jr. and E.D. Nixon's homes were attacked. Other attempts were made to end the boycott as well. The taxi system used by the African-American community to help people get around had its insurance canceled. Other blacks were arrested for violating an old law prohibiting boycotts.

But the African-American community also took legal action. Armed with the Brown v. Board of Education decision that said separate but equal policies had no place in public education, a black legal team took the issue of segregation on public transit systems to federal court. In June of 1956, the court declared Alabama's racial segregation laws for public transit unconstitutional. The city appealed and on November 13, 1956, the Supreme Court upheld the lower court's ruling.

With the transit company and downtown businesses suffering financial loss and the legal system ruling against them, the city of Montgomery had no choice but to lift the law requiring segregation on public buses. The combination of legal action, backed by the unrelenting determination of the African-American community made the 382-day Montgomery Bus Boycott one of the largest and most successful mass movements against racial segregation in history.

Thanks, freshwest!

http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715?page=3

[Kath1]

2. Awesome, she

Really brought tears to my eyes. I am so thrilled about Obama's re-election. Republican values repudiated by the people once again!

[sheshe2]

4. Sorry you have to work!

However, you spirit is here!

[Kath1]

5. Yeah, it really sucks,

Especially since I think I was denied time off because of my politics. Whatever. I'll certainly be with everyone in spirit! Enjoy Inauguration Day, she!

[graham4anything]

6. It is a glorious day today.&pix of Dr. King & LBJ,& Pres.Obama w/ Rev. Jackson, Rev.Sharpton

Dr. King is here and smiling. Hand in hand.
also don't forget President Johnson, who spent his capital to get it done.
While others talked about helping Dr. King, LBJ was the one to actually do it, and do it sooner than it might have happened.
Amazing that it took another 50 years for Barack Obama to become President.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson, (who was there that fateful day in Memphis), almost did it. But racism and a smear did not allow it.
(this was my favorite non President Obama picture from 2008)

tears of happiness after so many years of tears of sorrow
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and the one singular person in the media, that has never waivered, never cutten run,the only one after that first debate who got the rope-a-dope correct
Rev. Al Sharpton

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and Dr. King with Jackie Robinson
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Dr. King with Muhammad Ali
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President Obama with Muhammad Ali
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President Obama's amazing use of Ali's rope-a-dope left those who didn't quite believe,and the republican party, solidly knocked out.