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June 14, 1916 to March 7, 2015| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
March 1, 1927| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
November 11, 1914 to November 4, 1999| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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February 4, 1968| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
July 8, 1908 to January 26, 1979| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
October 25, 1958 to April 18, 1959| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Southern Christian Leadership Conference)| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
July 2, 1908 to January 24, 1993| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
October 23, 1962| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
September 16, 1896 to January 9, 1976| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
October 8, 1941| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
August 30, 1901 to September 8, 1981| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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January 8, 1931| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
February 12, 1968 to April 16, 1968| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
December 11, 1908 to February 14, 1985| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Achieving major national influence through the Nation of Islam (NOI) and the Black Power movement of the 1960s, proponents of black nationalism advocated economic self-sufficiency, race pride for African Americans, and black separatism. Reacting against white racial prejudice and critical of the gap between American democratic ideals and the reality of segregation and discrimination in America, in the 1960s black nationalists criticized the methods of Martin Luther King, Jr., the Southern ...| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
May 3, 1898 to December 15, 1987| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
April 16, 1963| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
October 6, 1917 to March 14, 1977| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
August 16, 1929 to January 23, 2018| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
January 7, 1966 to August 26, 1966| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
June 5, 1963| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
August 11, 1923 to October 31, 2019| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
November 1, 1932 to November 30, 1932| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
December 4, 1909| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
October 14, 1890 to March 28, 1969| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
May 17, 1954 to May 31, 1955| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Each volume of the King Papers Project requires years of research and, on average, a review of over five thousand documents.| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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May 17, 1962 to November 29, 1965| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
January 1, 1917 to December 31, 1917| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
July 25, 1931 to May 19, 2014| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
January 9, 1913 to April 22, 1994| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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August 25, 1919 to September 13, 1998| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
October 1, 1922 to June 2, 2003| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
September 17, 1922 to June 4, 2007| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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January 12, 1890 to September 10, 1976| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
November 11, 1915| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
For Martin Luther King, the concept of agape stood at the center of both his spiritual belief in a knowable God and his assertion that love and nonviolence were essential to remedying America’s race problems. He defined agape as “purely spontaneous, unmotivated, groundless, and creative. It is the love of God operating in the human heart” (Papers 6:325)| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
February 4, 1913 to October 24, 2005| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
In an 18 July 1952 letter, Martin Luther King wrote to his future wife, Coretta Scott, about his beliefs as a minister and proclaimed: “Let us continue to hope, work, and pray that in the future we will live to see a warless world, a better distribution of wealth, and a brotherhood that transcends race or color. This is the gospel that I will preach to the world” (Papers 6:126). As a self-described “advocator of the social gospel,” King’s theology was concerned “with the whole ma...| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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March 17, 1912 to August 24, 1987| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
April 26, 1964 to June 21, 1968| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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April 3, 1963 to May 10, 1963| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
December 12, 1927| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Morehouse College)| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
February 3, 1959 to March 18, 1959| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
October 2, 1869 to January 30, 1948| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
August 6, 1965| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
May 12, 1968 to June 24, 1968| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
January 1, 1909 to May 29, 1998| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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March 12, 1932| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
May 2, 1903 to March 15, 1998| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
May 2, 1912 to September 12, 1979| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
November 20, 1925 to June 6, 1968| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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July 2, 1964| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
January 2, 1863 to March 21, 1931| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Crozer Theological Seminary)| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
December 19, 1897 to November 11, 1984| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
July 30, 1930 to July 21, 1969| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
September 13, 1903 to June 30, 1974| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
January 1, 1877 to January 31, 1877| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
April 24, 1839| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
May 11, 1961 to April 30, 1975| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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April 15, 1889 to May 16, 1979| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
As a theologian, Martin Luther King reflected often on his understanding of nonviolence. He described his own “pilgrimage to nonviolence” in his first book, Stride Toward Freedom, and in subsequent books and articles. “True pacifism,” or “nonviolent resistance,” King wrote, is “a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love” (King, Stride, 80). Both “morally and practically” committed to nonviolence, King believed that “the Christian doctrine of love operating...| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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September 22, 1928 to June 10, 2024| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
June 14, 1964 to August 20, 1964| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
May 4, 1961 to December 16, 1961| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
January 1, 1942 to December 31, 1942| The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
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