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MLK JR. Harmony Elementary School Contest Entry
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MLK JR. Harmony Elementary School Contest Entry's Interests
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My interests are in Social Equality, The Civil Rights Movement,Non-Violent Resistance, Some problems that are still here today are poverty and racial inequality. Even though the Constitution made it legal for everyone to vote and to use all the same public places not everyone is nice to everyone else. It is not just Black people that get treated badly. Mexican or Hispanic people, Indian people, Asian people, and now especially because of the war Islam or Muslim people get treated badly.
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We have to keep working on MLK JR.'s Dream of Peace and Equality today. People remember it around his day but forget it the rest of the year. Also people think his Dream is only for Black people. Really it is for everyone. Black and white, Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, and non-religous. MLK JR. is teaching everyone that in order to have peace and equality we have to respect our differences and be tolerant of each other. Everyone is a person born and created just the same. It doesn't matter what day of the year it is we need to remember that all of the time!
We also have to make sure to educate everyone. We need to teach everyone MLK Jr.'s message of Peace and Equality. Today we need to also make sure everyone knows that there is a difference between the people who are terrorist that blew up the Twin Towers and Peace Loving Muslims and Islamics. Just like in Muslim Countries they need to teach their People We do not Hate them.
MLK JR. Harmony Elementary School Contest Entry's Blurbs
About me:
An Ordinary Man
I was born January 15, 1929 to Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. My first home was located at 501 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta, Georgia. At first my name was Michael but then my parents changed it to Martin. I had a brother named Alfred and a sister named Christine. Here is our house.
As a young boy growing up I had my first encounter with racism when I had to stop playing with my best friend. This was because he was White and I was Black. I guess I was about 5 or 6 at the time because it was when we started school. I was a pretty good kid growing up. I got in the usual kid trouble but nothing serious.
I was also really smart. I skipped some grades and graduated early. I went to college and became a pastor like my father. I married my wife, Corretta Scott King, in 1953.
We Had 4 Children, Yolanda, Martin Luther III, Dexter, and Bernice.
I started working in the Civil Rights Movement in 1955 in Birmingham Alabama with the Bus Boycotts
and I didn't stop until I was stopped on April 4, 1968 by a man named James Earl Ray who Shot and Killed me.
After my death my wife Coretta and my Children carried on my Dream and my Legacy.
Schools across the Nation Practice "A Day On" which means instead of coming to school for a regular school day the students participate in community activities and events. They help at homeless shelters, food pantry's, soup kitchens, and teach others about social justice and racial equality. Everyone, regardless of race, how much money you have, whether you are boy or a girl, or whether you are young or old, or if you have any kind of health problem works side by side just like Martin Luther King Jr. wanted in his Dream!
For Information on the MLK Day of Service visit
www.MLKDay.gov
In 1994 Congress passed the King Holiday and Service Act, designating the King Holiday as a national day of volunteer service. Instead of a day off from work or school, Congress asked Americans of all backgrounds and ages to celebrate Dr. King's legacy by turning community concerns into citizen action.
I would like to meet the millions of men and women, young and old whose lives I have touched. Those who were already old men, those who were middle aged, those who were young, and those who were babies when I was shot in 1968. I would like to meet all the people, Black, White, Brown, Yellow, and Red, whose lives my message and my work effected during my life and after my death!
I would like to meet all of those caring people who believed in My Dream and carried on in my footsteps. All of the children around this Nation who believe that one day we can all live in Peace!
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