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