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College Students Honor King Inspired Nation, World
Oregon Schools
organize MLK
service projects
In 1968 Martin Luther King
Jr. proclaimed, “Everybody can
be great because everybody can
serve.” On Monday, Jan. 18,
1,200 students from 11 Oregon
colleges and universities will
honor Dr. King through a united
day of service.
“The vision for the day is to
join our institutions together to
reflect on and learn about the life
of King, as well as show the
Portland metro area that college
students really care about our
co m m u n ity by se rv in g its
people,” said Warner Pacific Col­
lege President
Andrea Cook.
Theday will begin with a rally
hosted by Concordia University
in northeast Portland. Students
will hear from the local King
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1963; and becam e not only
the sym bolic leader o f A m eri­
can blacks but also a world
figure.
At the age of 35, Martin
Luther King, Jr., was the young­
est man to have received the
Nobel Peace Prize. When noti­
fied of his selection, he an­
nounced that he would turn over
the prize money of $54,123 to
the furtherance of the civil rights
movement.
On the evening of April 4,1968,
while standing on the balcony of
his motel room in Memphis, Tenn.,
where he was to lead a protest
march in sympathy with striking
garbage workers of that city, he
was assassinated.
EMMANUEL
Church of God in
Christ United
4800 NE 30th Ave. Port­
land OR 97211
503-335-8772
Eleven Oregon colleges offer community service during
the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Elementary School Choir, key-
Im m ediately following the
note speaker Pastor Mark Strong rally, students will board buses
of the Life Change Christian and head out to over 15 project
C enter, and Portland Pastor sites across Portland. A wide
Emmett Wheatfall, who will re­
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cite the words of Dr. King.
You are cordially invited
to worship with us in
these services:
Sunday Service
Sunday School 10:00 A.M
Y.P.C.E. 6:30P.M
dfc > 4
Pastor & W ife-
Bishop & Mrs. A.L. Wright
Worship Service 12:00 Noon
Evangelistic Service 7:(X) PM.
Weekday Service
Tuesday Night: Bible Study 7:30 PM.
Friday Night: Regular Service 7:30 PM.
Prayer Meeting & Seminar: Monday - Friday 12:00
Obama and King:
Nobel Prize Winners
detractors. After being awarded
the prize several conservative
ing that it was politically charged, Norwegian papers argued that
and Obama had few concrete the committee was using the
accomplishments.
domestic problems of a single
King, like Obama, lived in country “as the yard stick for the
times that were perhaps equally award of the prize.”
trying.
Thirty five years ago, the
Looking back at newspaper former police commissioner of
headlines shortly before he was Birmingham, Ala., who had King
awarded the prize in 1964, the •arrested the year before during
country was undergoing dra­ a violent protest, said that the
m atic transform ations. Civil committee was “scrapping the
rights marches turned violent as bottom of the barrel” in award­
politicians waffled on support ing King the prize.
for the cause, and calls for more
Som e critics o f O b am a’s
m ilitant approaches becam e award said that it was ironic
steadily louder.
that he was aw arded the prize
But King stuck to the non­ for prom oting fraternity be­
violent approach he modeled tween nations and working to­
after Mahtma Ghandi who led ward the “abolition or reduc­
India to independence from Brit­ tion o f standing arm ies,” while
ain in the 1940s.
escalating the war in A fghani­
T he sam e y e a r he w as stan and taking few steps to
awarded the prize, King told a confront the military-industrial
reporter for the New York Ti mes com plex. .
that the more militant approaches
Obama has traveled exten­
to civil rights were “immoral and sively during his young presi­
ineffective.”
dency working to reassure people
“Violence might bring about across the world that America
temporary victory, but it cannot can be a source of moral forti­
bring about permanent peace,” tude and, maybe, change.
he later noted- words that Obama
But just a year into his presi­
in v o k ed in his a c c e p ta n c e dency it still remains to be seen
speech.
if Obama will live up the expec­
King was also not without his tations of the Nobel committee.
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GOD WILL DO IT AGAIN IN 2010!
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