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Magnolia: Tom Cruise's new film reviewed j&hepk it out on page 7 ■fc------------ :------------ ClAckAMÁS - • Z Wednesday, January 12, 2000 Men’s hoops win 11 of 14 games Mg/ In depth with ASG President James Gould w Check out the •1 profile on Page 8 Read the story on Page 9 P r Ì NT r _____________ Clackamas Community College ______________ _J/olume_>22S!!L_!££H^__£. Oregon City, Oregon gation), King led and organized many nonviolent marches, demon strations and boycotts. One of these marches took place in Birmingham, The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther AlabamainMayofl963. Hundreds King Jr. is the only American be of singing school children filled the sides George Washington to have streets of downtown Birmingham. Force for desegregation a national holiday designated for Martin Luther King Jr. was one of Police officers, attack dogs and his birthday... a man who, during a the leading forces behind the with firefighters were ordered to stop the time of racial turmoil and an unbal drawal of segregation laws in the protestors. Scenes of young pro anced society, knew it takes time testors being 60’s. Known mainly for attitudes to change. attacked by as a civil rights activ Most of us know him for dogs and ist, he also spoke out “having a dream.” Our pinned against poverty and X generation was taught man who against build the Vietnam War. t I briefly about him in ings by fire King was bom in school; some recall hoses were Atlanta, Georgia to watch ing h is struggles is not fit shown in Alberta Williams on television during newspapers King and Martin Martin Luther King Jr. the rightsmove- and on televi ■ I ment. At Clackamas? Luther King Sr. His sion around father was a pastor at > the holiday was not the world. the Ebenezer Baptist Church, one of the ilarger churches in Atlanta. During the demonstration, King was King entered college arrested and sent to jail. He wrote a 1 early and by 1948 he letter to local clergymen who had 1 had graduated and de criticized him for creating disorder ft cided to pursue the in the city. His “Letter from Birming |III||||1H ministry. ham Jail,” which argued that indi viduals had By 1955 the moral he received right and re his doctoral sponsibility to degree from disobey un Boston Uni- just laws, was versity, widely read l where he I met his and added to King’s stand . wife, Coretta Scott. They ing as amoral leader. National reac ' would have four tion to the violence built support for i children together. the struggle for black civil rights. ■ The next year King was selected as pas- “I have a Dream” King and other black leaders or | tor ofthe Dexter Av- I enue Baptist Church ganized a march on Washington in I in Montgomery, 1963, a massive protest for jobs and I Alabama. civil rights. On Aug. 28,1963, King addressed an audience of more than 200,000 civil rights supporters. His Leads bus boycott Soon after Rosa speech expressed the hopes of the Parks refused to give civil rights movement and was more her seat to a white moving than any in American his passenger on Dec. 1, tory. The combination of the speech 1955, King led the year-long Mont and the march, on top of the Bir gomery bus boycott. mingham demonstrations, created Nov. 2,1983: Legislation for na July 15, 1970: State Rep. The boycott re the political momentum that resulted tional holiday signed by Presi George Fleming begins hearings sulted in the federal in the Civil Rights Act of1964, which dent Ronald Reagan. to make the date a legal state court ordering prohibited segregation in public ac holiday. Montgomery’s city commodations, as well as discrimi Jan. 20,1986: First observance buses to be desegre nation in education and employ of birthday as a legal holiday na Aug. 2,1983: House of Repre gated. By the end of mail tionwide. sentatives approves legislation, As a result of King’s leadership the boycott, King 338-90, making birthday a na was a national figure. during the American civil rights tional legal holiday the third As one of the movement, and his highly visible Monday in January beginning in founders of the moral stance, he was awarded the 1986. Southern Christian 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. The same Leadership Confer- year he also became the first black Oct 19,1983: Senate, defying enee (SCLC) in 1957, American to be honored as Time efforts by Sen. Jesse Helms, (an organization of magazine’s Man ofthe Year. R-N.C., to sidetrack legislation, black churches and approves measure 78-22. ministers aimed to See MLK, page 3 Ichange racial segre- MEGAN OLDENSTADT Managing Editor even observed until 1993. So why is a man’s birthday na tionally observed every January and yet so many people know so little about him? ■ A won't die for something to live. ML 4 IN an pú&ic r it How the King holiday evolved April 8, 1968: Rep. John Conyers, D-Mich. submits the first legislation proposing King's birthday a holiday, four days af ter King was assassinated. March 25, 1970: Conyers and Rep. Shirley Chisholm, D-N.Y., announce hearings to study holi day issue after petitions carrying 6 million signatures are submit ted to Congress. April 10,1970: California passes legislation making King's birthday a school holiday, first state to do so. i I
