THE KAPPA PHI LAMBDA CHAPTER of ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. and THE ALPHA FOUNDATION of HOWARD COUNTY, INC.
Present the 40th Annual
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. M E M O R I A L
B R E A K F A S T
Intentional Leadership Sunday, January 11, 2015
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The 40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast Sunday, January 11, 2015
Intentional Leadership Table of Contents President’s Message, Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc......2 Chairman’s Message, Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc...................................... 3 Educational Programs Overview..........................................................................................4 Letters and Proclamations....................................................................................................6 The Occasion........................................................................................................................14 “We Shall Overcome”............................................................................................................15 “Lift Every Voice and Sing”.................................................................................................15 KPL Chapter 50 Year Plus Brothers..................................................................................20 Chapter Presidents, Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter.............................................................21 Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter Members.......................22 A Commemorative Litany of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ...............................................23 In Memoriam of Kappa Phi Lambda Brothers ..................................................................24 Biography of Today’s Keynote Speaker..............................................................................26 The Program ........................................................................................................................27 History and Past Themes of The Breakfast.......................................................................28 40th Annual MLK Breakfast Planning Committee...........................................................29 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chronology...................................................................... 30-33 Endowments, Contributors and Patrons ...........................................................................48
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ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. ®
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Opel T. Jones, Sr. President John H. Taylor Vice President Malik Walker Recording Secretary Bresean Jenkins Corresponding Secretary Lionel J. Perron Financial Secretary Rodney Shannon Treasurer James R. Wilson Chaplain Evan Jones Sergeant-at-Arms James C. Bailey Director of Educational Activities Avery Pearsall Historian Brandon L. Tighlman Director of Membership Intake Charles I. Stokes, III Associate Editor to The Sphinx Cecil G. Christian, Jr. Parliamentarian Clarence D. Toomer Chapter Elder David H. Barrett Chairman, Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc. Norris T. Jennings Immediate Past President
Henry Arthur Callis
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Dear Friends, Patrons, Supporters and my Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.:
• Annual recognition of outstanding high school students with scholarships and awards
The Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. (ΑΦΑ), Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter (ΚΦΛ) and The Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc. (AFHC) are honored to welcome you to our 40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast. We are dedicated to honor and celebrate the legacy of our dear Alpha Brother, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• The High Achievers Middle School Program, now operating at Bonnie Branch and Wilde Lake Middle Schools
Intentional Leadership, the theme for today’s breakfast, goes without saying for an Alpha Man, especially Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In light of recent events over the past year, we must lead our youth to be educated, informed, and resilient against the adversities they may face in years to come. In addition to peaceful protest, a motto in which Dr. King firmly stood on, we must continue to be role models in our communities for our youth, as we stay steadfast with our aims; manly deeds, scholarship, and love for ALL mankind. ΚΦΛ was chartered on March 1, 1975, by thirty-four Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha who lived in and around Columbia, MD, some of whom are in attendance today! As we approach the 40th Anniversary of the chartering of ΚΦΛ, we would like to highlight just a few programs and volunteer commitments in the Howard County community over the last 40 years: • Project Alpha provides workshops and discussions at a selected Howard County high school yearly exploring issues on responsible sexual behavior; one of our national programs • A Voteless People is a Hopeless People provides voter education to the Howard County community, as well as voter registration drives; one of our national programs • The Alpha Achievers Program for young men encourages high academic achievement in all Howard County high schools; an award winning program recognized last year by The Eastern Region of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Charles Henry Chapman
• The Harambee Conference at Howard Community College for over 125 Alpha Achievers • Project Cornucopia provides clothing and shoes to the community, specifically winter coats as the colder weather approaches • The Cooper Senior Assisted Group Home Project provides Christmas gifts and fellowship to seniors • The Grassroots Crisis Center Program provides clothing, shoes, and toys to residents • The Alpha Sankofa Program provides students with the opportunity to visit Ghana, Africa The Brothers of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter, and The Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc. thank you for your continued support and especially for your attendance at our 40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast. We are proud of what we have accomplished over the past 40 years, however it would not have been the same without your support. Please mark your calendar and plan to attend the 41st Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast on Sunday, January 10, 2016!
With warm regards,
Opel T. Jones, Sr. President Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter
FOUNDERS OF ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. Eugene Kinckle Jones George Biddle Kelley Nathaniel Allison Murray
Robert Harold Ogle
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THE ALPHA FOUNDATION of HOWARD COUNTY, INC.
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David H. Barrett Chairman Dennis G. Kemp, Sr. Vice Chairman Keith M. Dukes, Sr. Vice Chairman of Fundraising Chester G. Chambers Treasurer Richard H. Shepherd, Jr. Assistant Treasurer and Secretary James C. Bailey Director KPL Educational Activities Calvin R. Austin Procurement Officer Bryant “Trey” Robinson Legal Counsel Calvin Austin Procurement Officer Opel T. Jones, Sr. President Kappa Phi Lambda Cecil G. Christian, Jr. David Raphael Kenneth M. Jennings, Jr. Freeman L. Sands, Sr.. Brandon L. Tighlman Greg Olaniran
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elcome to the 40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast, a major milestone in the history of this event. And many of you have shared most, if not all, of those 40 years with us. It is a privilege to cohost this event with the Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. We remind you that The Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc. (AFHC) was created in 2001 for the express purpose of funding the educational programs of the Kappa Phi Lambda (KPL) chapter of the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. AFHC has worked very hard to keep pace with the expansion of existing KPL education programs and new initiatives that enrich those programs. At out 2104 breakfast, we announced our partnership with the University of Maryland - the Alpha Achievers 2.0 Partnership. The objective of this partnership is to conduct a comprehensive evaluation of the Alpha Achievers Program (AAP) and document its operational best practices for addressing the unique needs of African American male high school students. That evaluation will be underway this month. It is critical to the AFHC and the Local Children’s Board, the top two funders of the Alpha Achievers, that this objective evaluation be completed so that larger donors of national stature whose missions align with the foundation might be attracted to this unique 17-year-old program and consider supporting our goals. Our pursuit of grant opportunities from major donors does not mean we do not fully appreciate the ongoing support you have given us over the years. It is because of you that we had the foresight and faith in you to create the Alpha Foundation and establish an endowment with the Community Foundation of Howard County. When we brought to your attention on January 13, 2014, that 2013 donations were down 30% from 2012, you responded with generous donations that started that day and continued throughout 2014. You helped us raise our endowment to $85,000. Though it was $15,000 shy of our $100,000 2014 goal; it was $15,000 more than the $70,000 we had on hand last year! We are determined to get to $100,000 in 2015. With your help we will. Finally, to keep you informed on how your donations are helping and also to make giving easier throughout the year, we have redesigned and have launched our new web site at www.alphafoundationhc.org. Please enjoy the program and be sure to complete the back of your ticket and leave it on the table. Someone will collect it after the breakfast. We will enter the information in our email database so we can contact you with updates up to four times a year. Thank you and enjoy your new pens! Sincerely, David H. Barrett Chairman The Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc. To donate year-round, visit: www.alphafoundationhc.org
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THE ALPHA FOUNDATION of HOWARD COUNTY, INC.
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KPL Educational Programs and Initiatives Bro. J. Craig Bailey Director of Educational Activities, Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter entrusts to its Education Committee the task of developing and monitoring educational programs that benefit the African American young people in Howard County. The most visible of those programs is the Alpha Achievers. n Alpha Achievers: Established in 1997, this nationally recognized program seeks to enable African American males to achieve and maintain a 3.0 grade point average or higher. The program also promotes character growth, develop leadership skills and critical thinking, while encouraging its members to become full citizens of the school and the community. Alpha Achievers currently serves over 350 young men at all twelve Howard County Public High Schools. This effort complements the national program of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. entitled “Go To High School, Go To College”. n Alpha Achievers 2.0 Initiative: The Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc. (AFHC), Howard County Public School System and University of Maryland at College Park have partnered to implement the Alpha Achievers 2.0 initiative. The objective of this partnership is to complete a comprehensive evaluation of the Alpha Achievers Program and document its operational best practices for addressing the unique needs of African American male high school students. The University has agreed to support AFHC with the relevant expertise and resources in order to implement these research-based evaluation methods. n Harambee Conference: This annual conference provides the opportunity for student representatives of Alpha Achievers Chapters throughout Howard County to learn and collaborate with one another during a half-day session that includes guest speakers, workshops and luncheon that focus on a particular theme. n High Achievers: This pilot program seeks to prepare African American male middle school students for the academic, emotional and social transition that occurs upon entering high school. Through a series of extracurricular and school based activities, members of the Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter mentor Howard County Public School students to increase self-esteem and social skills.
n Project Alpha provides education, motivation and skill-building on issues of responsibility, relationships, teen pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases for high school age males in Howard County. This national Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. program conceived in partnership with the March of Dimes consists of a series of workshops and informational sessions that are locally conducted by Kappa Phi Lambda members. The three goals of Project Alpha are to (1) share knowledge by combating ignorance and fear with factual information, (2) to change attitudes by providing motivation toward positive changes in sexual behavior and (3) to provide skills by creating a sense of empowerment and self-esteem. n Ojise Essay Contest: The objective of this program is to encourage critical thinking and analysis among the African American males of Howard County Public School System. At the same time, this initiative exposes students to important research, history and literature that is relevant to the African Diaspora. Financial awards are made to the top three essays based upon an established rubric n Educational Success Grants: This program provides grant to encourage and support African-American males in need, who desire to complete Advanced Placement courses and/or exams, as well as independent research projects. This program was established to address the issue of low participation rates by African American male students in Howard County. n KPL Scholarships: This college scholarship program is designed to encourage academic achievement and support financial need among Howard County Public School African American high school students. Since 1975, the AFHC in cooperation with Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. have awarded over $350,000 in scholarships. Continued on next page >>
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n Alpha Sankofa: Reclaim Your History To Realize Your Future Sankofa is a word in the Akan language of West Africa. This program is designed to re-establish a connection between young African-American males and their historic and cultural roots in Ghana, West Africa. Two components of the program are: DuBois-Robeson International Scholars, which is a travel program to Ghana and the Dr. Henry Arthur Callis Memorial Project, which supports health and science education programs in Agogo, Ashanti Region of Ghana. n The Leadership Development Institute (LDI) aims to develop a 21st century generation of African American leaders. To this end, the members of the Kappa Phi Lambda chapter, as well as other chapters within the region sponsor, organize and facilitate this program. Along with professionals and experts, the workshop leadersinstruct the participants in parliamentary procedures, conflict resolution, models of leadership, public speaking, community and civic engagement, and educational enhancement skills. This annual three-day program of intense leadership training for high-school age young men takes place at a local area college or university.
n The Ellington-Adderley Jazz Ensemble was founded in 2001. It provides an environment for musicians of all ages, with a special focus on youth, to develop artistic, improvisational and intellectual skills. The group performs at official and public events throughout Howard County and nearby areas. The high school members’ music independent studies have been accepted at Howard Community College, thereby earning college credits for participants, while still in high school.
Induction ceremony of Alpha Achievers
High Achievers of Bonnie Branch Midde School
Scholarship and awards ceremony
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THE KAPPA PHI LAMBDA CHAPTER of ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC.
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Invites You To A
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40th Anniversary Celebration w eekend February 27 - March 1, 2015
Scheduled Events
KΦΛ HAPPY HOUR
Friday, February 27, 2015 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Ananda Restaurant 7421 Maple Lawn Blvd Fulton, MD 20759 Free and Cash Bar
KΦΛ 40TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION LUNCHEON Sunday, March 1, 2015 1:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Sheraton Columbia 10207 Wincopin Circle Columbia, MD 21044
KΦΛ COMMUNITY SERVICE PROJECT
Saturday, February 28, 2015 To be determined
GUEST SPEAKER Mark Tillman 34th General President, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Tickets: $60 per person
For info: Derrick Leak email: KPL40Year@gmail.com phone: (240) 461-8946
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The Occasion
Intentional Leadership written by Bro. John H. Taylor Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter of Howard County Initiated: Beta Gamma Chapter – March 31, 1960
On this day, January 11, 2015, the occasion of our 40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast, we the Alpha Brothers of The Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter of Howard County, MD challenge all in attendance to take up the mantel of “Intentional Leadership” as was so admirably carried by the man whom we celebrate today.
table … Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertion and passionate concern of dedicated individuals”. The question now is where do we now stand?
Are we prepared to step forward and challenge the status quo? Are we prepared to take the sometimes-lonely road of leadership where it is often necessary to look within ourselves for motivation and inspiration? Dr. King left We welcome your presence here today and these words with us; “History will have to reaccept it as your support of the position stated cord that the greatest tragedy of this period of by Dr. King, “The ultimate measure of a man social transition was not the strident clamor of is not where he stands in a moment of com- the bad people, but the appalling silence of the fort, but where he stands at times of challenge good people”. and controversy”. It is our collective charge and responsibility to participate in the pro- Our 38th and 39th memorial breakfasts adcesses of our communities, state, nation and dressed the respective themes “Shaping The world, to address, seek solutions, and make Future Based On The Past” and “Where Do We changes to all that infringe on the right to life, Go From Here”. We believe the answers lie in liberty and pursuit of happiness of all people all becoming engaged in Intentional Leaderof the world. ship and not standing by as the constitutional rights and human dignity of any person is Much has been accomplished over the last adversely impacted. We believe Colin Pow60 years. However, events of the recent past ell said it right, “Being responsible sometimes - (the killings of Trayvon Martin in Florida, means pissing people off ”. Michael Brown in Missouri, John Crawford and Tamir Rice in Ohio, Eric Garner and offi- This annual memorial celebration is the macers Wenjian Liu and Raphael Ramos in New jor fundraiser for The Alpha Foundation of York City) fueled by the ongoing systemic Howard County and the Kappa Phi Lambda failure to remedy the social, economic, judi- Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. cial, and political inequities for all Americans, of Howard County. Your support of this occaclearly demonstrate a void in America’s col- sion directly impacts the conduct of the edulective leadership. Dr. King once stated, “Hu- cational activities of the chapter. Thank you man progress is neither automatic nor inevi- for your support and commitment.
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We Shall Overcome* We shall overcome, We shall overcome We shall overcome some day. CHORUS: Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe. We shall overcome some day We’ll walk hand in hand. We’ll walk hand in hand. We’ll walk hand in hand some day.
CHORUS: Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe. We shall overcome some day We shall all be free. We shall all be free. We shall all be free some day. CHORUS: Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe. We shall overcome some day.
* Edited for this event
Lift Every Voice and Sing** by James Weldon Johnson Lift every voice and sing, till earth and heaven ring,
God of our weary years, God of our silent tears,
Ring with the harmonies of liberty;
Thou who has brought us thus far on the way;
Let our rejoicing rise, high as the list’ning skies,
Thou who has by thy might, led us into the light,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Keep us forever in the path, we pray.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us,
Lest our feet stray from the places, our God, where we met thee,
Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us,
Lest our hearts drunk with the wine of the world, we forget thee;
Facing the rising sun of a new day begun,
Shadowed beneath Thy hand, may we forever stand,
Let us march on till victory is won.
True to our God, true to our native land.
** First and third verses used for this event
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ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. ®
KAPPA PHI LAMBDA (ΚΦΛ) CHAPTER of HOWARD COUNTY, MD
50 Year Plus
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B R O T H E R S
Congratulations to the Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc. and Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. on the occasion of your 40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Scholarship Breakfast from the 50 Year Plus Brothers of Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter. Years in ΑΦΑ Brother 66 63 62 62 58 58 57 56 55 54 54 54 54 54 54 53 53 51 51 50
Clarence Toomer Cecil Christian, Jr. Kenneth Jennings, Jr. Richard McGriff James Fitzpatrick, Jr. Harold Burgess Freeman Sands Moss Kendrix, Jr. C. Vernon Gray John H. Taylor Harvey Moran Alexander Leak George Hunter Walter Bryant Louis W. Ollie Harold Payne Clarence Hall Robert L. Harris, Jr. David H. Barrett Louis Baker
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Initation Date Chapter College/University 11/01/48 04/01/51 06/28/52 11/1952 12/01/56 12/17/56 12/01/57 12/13/58 12/17/59 04/60 05/01/60 09/01/60 12/01/60 02/03/60 12/21/60 5/19/61 10/31/61 03/23/63 05/17/63 12/11/64
Beta Beta Omicron Beta Nu Beta Gamma Alpha Phi Beta Alpha Beta Beta Alpha Beta Gamma Gamma Nu Beta Delta Delta Tau Beta Alpha Mu Alpha Beta Theta Delta Iota Epsilon Kappa
KPL Charter Member (1975)
Howard University CHARTER Howard University University of Pittsburgh CHARTER Florida A&M University Virginia State College Clark College Morgan State College Howard University CHARTER Morgan State College CHARTER Virginia State College Virginia Union University Lincoln University CHARTER South Carolina State University St. Paul College Morgan State College University of Minnesota CHARTER Talladega College Chicago Metro Chapter Rutgers University Bradley University
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ALPHA PHI ALPHA FRATERNITY, INC. ®
KAPPA PHI LAMBDA (ΚΦΛ) CHAPTER of HOWARD COUNTY, MD
Chapter Presidents Opel T. Jones, Sr. 2014 - Present
David Raphael 2001 - 2003
David H. Barrett 1987 - 1989
Norris T. Jennings 2012 - 2014
Dennis Kemp, Sr. 1999 - 2001
Freeman Sands, Sr. 1985 - 1987
Harry Evans, III 1993 - 1995 2010 - 2012
David Campbell 1997 - 1999
Kenneth Jennings, Jr. 1982 - 1984
Brian Wallace 2008 - 2010
Richard Alexander 1996 - 1997
James Fitzpatrick, Jr. 1980 - 1982
Kwame Ndzibah 2007 - 2008
Charles Robinson, III 1995 - 1996
Edward Young * 1978 - 1980
Calvin Austin 2005 - 2007
Harold Payne 1984 - 1985, 1991 - 1993
Joseph Collins * 1976 - 1978
James B. Smith 2003 - 2005
Cecil Christian, Jr. 1989 - 1991
Melvin Bilal 1975 - 1976
* Brothers of Omega Chapter
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BROTHERS of KAPPA PHI LAMBDA (ΚΦΛ) CHAPTER of HOWARD COUNTY, MD A Richard A. Alexander Dwight L. Ausbrooks Calvin R. Austin
CHAPTER OFFICERS President...................... Opel T. Jones, Sr. Vice President................... John H. Taylor Recording Secretary ........... Malik Walker Corresponding Secretary.... Bresean Jenkins
Financial Secretary.......... Lionel J. Perron Treasurer.......................Rodney Shannon Chaplain.........................James R. Wilson Sergeant-at-Arms...................Evan Jones Director of Educational Activities ....................................... James C. Bailey Historian ........................... Avery Pearsall Director of Membership Intake ................................ Brandon L. Tilghman Associate Editor to The Sphinx ................................. Charles I. Stokes, III Parliamentarian ......Cecil G. Christian, Jr. Chapter Elder ...........Clarence D. Toomer Immediate Past President ....................................Norris T. Jennings Chairman, The Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc......... David H. Barrett
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B James C. Bailey Louis C. Baker John Brooks Tyrone C. Banks Brandon L. Barrett David H. Barrett Jason K. Bennett Brian Blake Reese L. Boyd Vaughn M. Bradley, Sr. Sean Brooks Rochelle Brown Sean K. Brown Walter M. Bryant Harold F. Burgess C David L. Campbell Vu Cap Vic Carter Chester Chambers Carmon Choice Cecil G. Christian, Jr. Alzono Cockrell Bryan C. Cyprian D Donald E. Debnam Steven E. De Foor Gabriel Dennis Steven Denny Cloyd C. Dodson Bruce W. Dorsey Keith Duke E Willie A. Eggleston, Jr. Devynne Espeut Harry Evans, III F Mark Fleming, Sr. Charles E. Franklin Bowyer G. Freeman G Todd Givens C. Vernon Gray Arvell Greenwood, Sr.
H David Hagans Clarence S. Hall Warren S. Harding, Jr. Hill Harper Robert L. Harris, Jr. Vincent E. Harris William L. Harris Frederick C. Havard Rodney G. Hawkins Rodgers L. Lewis Vincent Hodges Sherman Howell George W. Hunter, Jr. Louis G. Hutt, Jr. J Ernest L. Jackson, Sr. James T. Jackson Welsey Jackson Gerald L. James Bresean Jenkins Kenneth M. Jennings, Jr. Norris T. Jennings Kerry G. Johnson Evan A. Jones Lawrence Jones Opel T. Jones, Sr. Kenny Jordan K Dennis G. Kemp, Sr. Kenneth Kemp, Sr. Moss H. Kendrix, Jr. Jordan Kibby L Alexander Leak Derrick C. Leak Jason C. Lee Rogers L. Lewis Justin Lloyd
M Devon T. McCready Richard McGriff Charles E. Miles, IV Harvey A. Moran, Jr. Ray H. Moseley, Sr.
O Greg Olaniran Louis W. Ollie P Johnny Parker Michael G. Parrish, Jr. Harold Payne Avery Pearsall Lionel J. Perron Randall L. Phyall Issac Prentice R David Raphael Stephen M. Rice Charles F. Robinson, III Wayne E. Rock Georges E. Rousseau S Freeman L. Sands, Sr. Lewis O. Saunders Hakim Scott Jerry E. Seals Shawn A. Settles Rodney M. Shannon Perry Shelton Richard H. Shepherd, Jr. Leonard Simmons Charles I. Stokes, III Kenneth Swain T Jason F. Tate John H. Taylor Brandon L. Tilghman Clarence D. Toomer Ronald F. Triplett Dave Toomer James Turner W Neal (Malik) Walker Charles C. Watson Gerald Whitaker Da’Nall T. Wilmer James R. Wilson Julian C. Wilson, Jr. Anthony K. Wutoh
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The Litany of Commemoration of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
LEADER: In the grand order of the universe, our Lord God wisely has chosen men and women to serve Him in each era. Such a servant of out Lord God was Martin Luther King, Jr., whose birth we now commemorate. We are thankful for the life of this 20th Century prophet of freedom who joined the prophets of history in the cry: AUDIENCE: In the name of freedom, let my people go. LEADER: Martin Luther King, Jr., envisioned the ultimate freedom: the freedom achieved in struggle; the freedom reached in brotherhood; the freedom fired by the dream of a man; the freedom inspired by the lot of a people; the freedom free of hate; the freedom full of love. AUDIENCE: In the name of this freedom of love, let my people go. LEADER: He came into our lives when the yearning of people to be free had turned their attention to justice. For justice, only justice, we shall follow, that we may live and inherit the land which the Lord our God gives us. AUDIENCE: In the name of justice, let my people go. LEADER: He reminded us that the spirit of man soars from the depths of despair with the strength and belief in the promise of the Creator of the universe. We know and we testify: The Lord loves justice; He will not forsake his saints. AUDIENCE: In the name of the Lord, let my people go.
sickness of separating human life; to Selma, to ensure the equality of people in human affairs; to a hundred nameless communities, to remove the painful shackles of oppression and light joyous torches of liberty. AUDIENCE: In the name of this journey toward freedom, let my people go. LEADER: When war was encountered, the leader of this journey sang with the people: “Ain’t gonna study war no more.”When violence was met, he spurned it and said: “Hate is too great a burden to bear.” AUDIENCE: In the name of peace, and love, let my people go. LEADER: And even when death was confronted, as the journey reached Memphis, he could say in final triumph, that in life he had found something worth dying for, something worth life itself-The Promised Land, a land of freedom with justice. AUDIENCE: In the name of the Spirit of the Lord, let my people go. LEADER: So we are thankful that the Spirit of the Lord anointed a man who preached good news to the poor, who rejected segregation and embraced liberation, who prophesied the greatness of his people in struggle for the deliverance of all people. AUDIENCE: In the name of the Promised Land, let my people go.
AUDIENCE: In the name of the prophet, Amos, and in the name of suffering people, let my people go.
LEADER: We praise the Lord God for sending us a man of peace who resisted tyranny, a man of nonviolence who fought for liberty, a man of God who worked for people. Thank you, Lord, for Martin Luther King, Jr. who inspired us with his dream, who walked into our lives and our hearts with his marches for justice, who demanded freedom with courage in the Face of grave danger, and who has now passed on into your Promised Land. Thank you for his noble legacy to continue the journey to that land here on earth, in life for all people. Thank you, God; You have sent us one who now causes us to say:
LEADER: The journey went to Montgomery, to affirm human dignity and courage; to Birmingham, to defeat the
ALL: In the name of Martin Luther King, Jr., let my people go.
LEADER: And so he set off with us on a journey for justice. It was a journey proclaiming the words of the ancient’ prophet, Amos: “Let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness Like a mighty stream.” It was a journey calling forth the modern Christian ministry - to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to set at liberty those who are oppressed.
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In Memoriam
Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be, for my unconquerable soul. Excerpts from “Invictus” by William Earnest Henley
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Keynote Address Speaker
Bro. Ozell Sutton 26th
Civil Rights Leader and General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Civil rights activist and community leader Ozell Sutton was born on December 13, 1925, on a plantation in southeast Arkansas in the city of Gould. Sutton’s mother was a widow who raised eight children: six boys who worked as cotton sharecroppers, and two girls who cooked and did laundry. Despite grueling hours and backbreaking work on the cotton plantation, Sutton managed to graduate from Dunbar High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1944, Sutton became one the first African Americans to serve in the United States Marine Corps. After surviving bloody conflicts from the Solomon Islands to Saipan, Sutton enrolled in Philander Smith College where he received his B.S. degree in 1950. Sutton became the first black reporter for the whiteowned publication Arkansas Democrat; he also served as one of the escorts for the Little Rock Nine in 1957. In 1961, Sutton became director of the Arkansas Council on Human Relations where he was part
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of the group that began the Community Relations Service (CRS). Sutton was given responsibility for the civil rights and opportunity groups that became known as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 1964. Sutton’s involvement in the Civil Rights Movement included his role as a field representative for the Community Relations Service. Sutton was at the Lorraine Hotel in the room next door to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee when Dr. King was assassinated in 1968. Sutton then became Special Assistant to the late Governor Winthrop Rockefeller of Arkansas. In 1972, Sutton directed the Justice Department’s Community Relations Service and was responsible for the department’s racial and ethnic conflict prevention and resolution efforts. In 1990, Sutton served on the board of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. In 1994, Sutton received the Distinguished Service Award from the United States Department of Justice. Sutton was the 26th General President of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. and continued to be a civil rights activist.
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Intentional Leadership Jazz Performance ................................................................................................................ Ellington-Adderley Jazz Ensemble Master of Ceremony ........................................................................................................................................... Bro. Vic Carter News Anchor WJZ TV - Baltimore Welcome ...................................................................................................................................................... Bro. David H. Barrett Chairman, Alpha Foundation of Howard County, Inc. Invocation...................................................................................................................................................... Bro. James R. Wilson Chaplain, Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter “Lift Every Voice & Sing”........................................................................................................ Led by Bro. Rodney G. Hawkins Chairman, 40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast Proclamations.................................................................................................................................................. Allan H. Kittleman Howard County Executive Remarks....................................................................................................................................................... Bro. Opel T. Jones, Sr. President, Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Remarks....................................................................................................................................................... Bro. R. Anthony Mills Eastern Region Vice President, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. BREAKFAST IS SERVED Acknowledgments ................................................................................................................................................ Bro. Vic Carter Educational Activities Presentation.............................................................................................................. Bro. J. Craig Bailey Director of Educational Activities, Kappa Phi Lambda Chapter Alpha Achiever Evaluation....................................................................................................................... Bro. David H. Barrett The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Litany............................................................................................................. Jamachi Eluchie Alpha Achiever, Hammond High School, Columbia, MD My Alpha Achiever Experience ...................................................................................................................... Mikal C. Walcott Alpha Achiever, Reservoir High School Introduction of Keynote Speaker ........................................................................................................................ Bro. Vic Carter Keynote Address.................................................................................................................................................Bro. Ozell Sutton 26th General President, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Closing Remarks ....................................................................................................................................... Bro. Opel T. Jones, Sr. “We Shall Overcome”................................................................................................................ Led by Bro. Rodney G. Hawkins Benediction ................................................................................................................................................... Bro. James R. Wilson
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Historic themes and keynote speakers of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast No. Date Location Theme Keynote Speaker
Chapter President & MLK Breakfast Chairman
1 January 16, 1976
American Cities Building The Dream Continues Columbia, MD
Congressman Parren J. Mitchell District 7, Maryland
Bro. Melvin Bilal Bro. C. Vernon Gray
2 January 15, 1977
Slayton House Keep The Fight Alive Columbia, MD
Senator Clarence Blount State Senator, Maryland
Bro. Joseph W. Collins, Jr. Bro. Orient Jackson
3 January 14, 1978
Oakland Mills Interfaith Center Dreaming of a New Day Columbia, MD
Bro. James A. Joseph Under Secretary, Dept. of Interior
Bro. Joseph W. Collins, Jr. Bro. Melvin Bilal
Rouse Building Columbia, MD
Ms. Bernadine Denning Director, Office of Revenue Sharing
Bro. Edward Young Bro. Harold Payne
4 January 14, 1979
Focus on Women
5 January 13, 1980
Rouse Building The Dream Lives On Columbia, MD
Bro. Melvin R. Goode Journalist
Bro. Edward Young Bro. C. Vernon Gray
6 January 11, 1981
Rouse Building The Dream Columbia, MD
Congressman Parren J. Mitchell District 7, Maryland
Bro. James E. Fitzpatrick Bro. C. Vernon Gray
Rouse Building Columbia, MD
Dr. King’s Dream: The Unfinished Agenda
Ms. Florefta D. McKenzie Superintendent, D.C. Public Schools
Bro. James E. Fitzpatrick Bro. David E. Rakes
8 January 9, 1983
Rouse Building Columbia, MD
Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life of Commitment and Love
Judge William H. Murphy, Jr. Supreme Bench, Baltimore City
Bro. Kenneth M. Jennings, Jr. Bro. David E. Rakes
9 January 15, 1984
Rouse Building Columbia, MD
A Life of Commitment, A Legacy of Love
Bishop John H. Adams African Methodist Episcopal Church
Bro. Kenneth M. Jennings, Jr. Bro. William M. Floyd
10 January 13, 1985
Rouse Building Columbia, MD
A Life of Commitment, A Legacy of Love
Dr. Hugo A. Owens, DDS Selma March Organizer
Bro. Harold Payne Bro. Charles Fizer
11 January 12, 1986
Rouse Building Keeping The Dream Alive Columbia, MD
Bro. Melvin R. Goode Journalist
Bro. Freeman L. Sands, Sr. Bro. Sherman Howell
12 January 11, 1987
Turf Valley Country Club Living The Dream Ellicoff City, MD
Bro. Dr. John Slaughter Chancellor, Univ. of MD, College Park
Bro. Freeman L. Sands, Sr. Bro. David H. Barrett
13 January 10, 1988
Turf Valley Country Club A Focus on Youth Ellicott City, MD
Bro. James E. Coleman. Bro. David H. Barrett Student of Divinity, James Madison Univ. Bro. Freeman L. Sands, Sr.
14 January 15, 1989
Martin’s West A Focus on Youth Baltimore, MD
Bro. William J. Barber, Ill Graduate Student of Divinity, Duke Univ.
Bro. David H. Barrett Bro. Freeman L. Sands, Sr.
15 January 14, 1990
Martin’s West Education is the Answer Baltimore, MD
Bro. Dr. Ralph T. Grant, Jr. Councilman, Newark, NJ
Bro. Cecil G. Christian, Jr. Bro. Harry Evans, Ill
16 January 13, 1991
Martin’s West A Challenge to Those Who Can! Baltimore, MD
Edward Lewis Publisher, Essence Magazine
Bro. Cecil G. Christian, Jr. Bro. Richard Alexander
17 January 12, 1992
BWI Marriott Hotel The Challenge Baltimore, MD
Dr. Joyce A. Ladner VP, Academic Affairs, Howard Univ.
Bro. Harold Payne Bro. Salvador WaIler
18 January 10, 1993
BWI Marriott Hotel Heritage, Courage and Intellect Baltimore, MD
Bro. Dr. Na’im Akbar Professor, Florida State Univ.
Bro. Harold Payne Bro. Cecil G. Christian, Jr.
19 January 9, 1994
BWI Marriott Hotel Baltimore, MD
Hon. Kurt L. Schmoke Mayor, Baltimore, Maryland
Bro. Harry Evans, Ill Bro. Cecil G. Christian, Jr.
20 January 8, 1995
BWI Marriott Hotel The Struggle Continues Baltimore, MD
Hon. James H. Sills Mayor, Wilmington, Delaware
Bro. Harry Evans, Ill Bro. Nathaniel Gibson
21 January 7, 1996
Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
The Relevance of Dr. King’s Message Today
Amiri Baraka Poet, Political Activist, Teacher
Bro. Charles F. Robinson, Ill Bro. David H. Barrett
22 January 12, 1997
Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
The Role of Religion in Promoting Diversity
Bro. Dr. John T. Porter, Pastor Bro. Richard Alexander 6th Ave. Baptist Church - Birmingham, AL Bro. Cecil G. Christian, Jr.
23 January 11, 1998
Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
The Effect of the Law on The Dream
Bro. Milton Carver Davis, Esq. Bro. David L. Campbell 29th General President, Alpha Phi Alpha Bro. Calvin Austin
7 January 10, 1982
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The Role of Politics in Dr. King’s Dream
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40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Breakfast P L A N N I N G
Opel T. Jones, Sr. ΚΦΛ Chapter President
Rodney G. Hawkins Committee Chairman
Donald E. Debnam
Ernest Jackson
C O M M I T T E E
Richard Alexander
Norris T. Jennings
David H. Barrett
Kerry G. Johnson
Vic Carter
Charles I. Stokes, III
Chester Chambers
John H. Taylor
No. Date Location Theme Keynote Speaker
Chapter President & MLK Breakfast Chairman
24 January 10, 1999 Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
Accepting the Mantle of Leadership
Bishop Woodie W. White United Methodist Church
Bro. David L. Campbell Bro. Ray H. Moseley, Sr.
25 January 9, 2000
Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
Challenges of the Post-Civil Rights Era in the 21st Century
Rev. Ambrose I. Lane WPFW Radio, Washington, D.C.
Bro. Dennis G. Kemp Bro. David H. Barrett
26 January 7, 2001
Martin’s West Making The Dream a Reality Baltimore, MD
Hon. Elijah E. Cummings (D) U.S. Congress - MD, 7th District
Bro. Dennis G. Kemp Bro. Richard Shepherd, Jr.
27 January 13, 2002 Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
Economic Empowerment, The Next Phase of the Civil Rights Movement
Bro. Dr. Dennis P. Kimbro Author, Professor, Motivational Speaker
Bro. David Raphael Bro. Vincent E. Harris
28 January 12, 2003 Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
The Dream’s Impact on the Education of Our Youth
Dr. Crystal A. Kuykendall Educator, Author, Motivational Speaker
Bro. David Raphael Bro. Harvey A. Moran
29 January 11, 2004 Martin’s West The Future of Affirmative Action Baltimore, MD
Bro. Marc H. Morial President, National Urban League
Bro. James B. Smith Bro. Charles F. Robinson, Ill
30 January 9, 2005
Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
Standing on the Shoulders of Leaders Past and Present
Brigadier General Sheridan G. Cordia US Army Retired
Bro. James B. Smith Bro. Reese Boyd
31 January 8, 2006
Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
The Civil Rights Movement: The New Paradigm of the 21st Century
Bro. Hill Harper Film, Television and Stage Actor
Bro. Calvin R. Austin Bro. James B. Smith
32 January 7, 2007
Martin’s West Baltimore, MD
Reviving the Dream What Would Martin Want Us to Do?
Bro. Rev. Dr. Bowyer G. Freeman Pastor, New St. Mark Baptist Church
Bro. Calvin R. Austin Bro. Kwame Ndzibah
Bro. Dr. Randall D. Pinkett Chairman and CEO, BCT Partners
Bro. Kwame Ndzibah Bro. Harry Evans, III
33 January 13, 2008 Martin’s West Economic Equality: Are We There Yet? Baltimore, MD
34 January 11, 2009 Martin’s West Grooming the Next Generation of Kings Bro. Roland Martin Baltimore, MD CNN Political Analyst
Bro. Brian Wallace Bro. Vincent Hodges
35 January 10, 2010 Martin’s West The Education of Our People Baltimore, MD
Bro. Kevin Powell Writer/Activist
Bro. Brian Wallace Bro. Ernest Jackson
36 January 9, 2011 Martin’s West Leadership in the 21st Century Baltimore, MD
Bro. Lt. Commander Mill Etienne, M.D., PPH Director of Epilepsy and EEG Laboratory Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Bro. Harry Evans, III Bro. Stephen M. Rice
37 January 8, 2012 Martin’s West Marching with Martin ... Into The Future Bro. Herman “Skip” Mason, Jr. Baltimore, MD 33rd General President Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Bro. Harry Evans, III Bro. Cecil G. Christian, Jr.
38 January 13, 2013 Martin’s West Shaping the Future Based on the Past Baltimore, MD
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Ph.D. Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Bro. Norris T. Jennings Bro. John H. Taylor
39 January 12, 2014 Martin’s West Where Do We Go From Here? Baltimore, MD
Bro. Walter Kimbrough, Ph.D. President, Dillard University
Bro. Norris T. Jennings Bro. Donald E. Debnam
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chronology n 1929
January 15: Michael Luther King, Jr. is born to Reverend and Mrs. Martin Luther King, Sr. (the former Alberta Christine Williams), in Atlanta, Georgia. His name changed to Martin at the age of six.
n 1935-1944
King attends David T. Howard Elementary School. Atlanta University Laboratory School, and Booker T. Washington High School. He passes the entrance examination to Morehouse College (Atlanta) without graduating from high school.
n 1947
King is licensed to preach and becomes an assistant to his father, who is pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta.
n 1948
February 25: King is ordained to the Baptist ministry. June: King graduates from Morehouse College with a B.A. Degree in sociology. September: King enters Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania. After hearing Dr. A. J. Muste and Dr. Mordecai W. Johnson preach on the life and teachings of Mahatma Gandhi, he begins to study Gandhi seriously.
n 1951
June: King graduates from Crozer with a B.D. degree, and enters Boston University to pursue a doctoral degree.
n 1952
January 22: King is initiated into Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. via Sigma Chapter at Boston University.
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n 1956
January 26: Dr. King is arrested on a charge of traveling 30 miles an hour in a 25 mile-an-hour zone in Montgomery. He is released on his own recognizance. January 30: A bomb is thrown onto the porch of Dr. King’s Montgomery home. Mrs. King and Mrs. Roscoe Williams, wife of a church member, are in the house with baby Yolanda Denise; no one is injured. February 2: A suit is filed in federal district court asking that Montgomery’s travel segregation laws be declared unconstitutional February 21: Dr. King is indicted with other figures in the conspiracy to hinder and prevent the operation of business without” just or legal cause.” June 4: A United States district court rules that racial segregation on city bus lines is unconstitutional. June 27: Dr. King is the guest speaker at the annual NAACP convention in San Francisco. August 10: Dr. King is a speaker before the platform committee of the Democratic Party in Chicago. October 30: Mayor Gayle of Montgomery instructs the city’s legal department “to file such proceedings as it may deem proper to stop the operation of car pools and transportation systems growing out of the boycott.” November 13: The United States Supreme Court affirms the decision of the three-judge district court in declaring unconstitutional Alabama’s stale and local laws requiring segregation on buses. December 20: Federal injunctions prohibiting segregation on buses are served on city and bus company officials in Montgomery. Injunctions are also served on state officials.
June 18: King marries Coretta Scott in Marion, Alabama.
December 21: Montgomery buses are integrated.
n 1954
n 1957
n 1955
January 10-11: The Southern Christian Leadership Conference SCLC) is formed at the Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta. Dr. King is elected its president.
October 31: King is installed by Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr., as the 20th pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, AL. June 5: King receives a Ph.D. degree in Systematic Theology from Boston University. November 17: The Kings’ first child, Yolanda Denise, is born in Montgomery. December 1: Mrs. Rosa Parks, a 42 year-old Montgomery seamstress, refuses to relinquish her bus seat to a white man, and is arrested. December 5: The first day of the bus boycott. The trial of Mrs. Parks. A meeting of movement leaders is held. Dr. King is unanimously elected president of an organization named the Montgomery Improvement Association, a name proposed by Reverend Ralph Abernathy. December 10: The Montgomery Bus Company suspends service in black neighborhoods.
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January 27: An unexploded bomb is discovered on Dr. and Mrs. King’s front porch.
February 18: Time magazine puts Dr. King on its cover. March 6, 1957: Dr. King stood with Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in Accra, Ghana, West Africa as the flag of European colonialism was lowered and the Ghanaian flag was raised, thereby through his presence linking the American Civil Rights movement with African national independence movements. May 17: Dr. King delivers a speech for the Prayer Pilgrimage For Freedom celebrating the third anniversary of the Supreme Court’s desegregation decision. The speech, entitled-Give Us the Ballot,” is given at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C. June 13: Dr. King has a conference with the vice president of the United States, Richard M. Nixon.
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chronology September 2: Dr. King addresses a Labor Day seminar on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Highlander Folk School, Monteagle, Tennessee. September: President Dwight D. Eisenhower federalizes the Arkansas National Guard to escort nine Negro students to an all white high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. September 9: The first civil rights act since Reconstruction is passed by Congress, creating the Civil Rights Commission and the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. October 23: A second child, Martin Luther III, is born to Dr. and Mrs. King.
n 1958
February 8: Dr. King is a guest speaker at a legislative conference of the American Jewish Congress in New York. June 23: Dr. King, along with Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, A. Philip Randolph, and Lester Granger, meets with President Dwight D. Eisenhower. September 3: Dr. King is arrested on a charge of loitering (later changed to “failure to obey an officer”) in the vicinity of the Montgomery Recorder’s Court. He is released on one hundred dollars bond. September 4: Dr. King is convicted after pleading “not guilty on the charge of failure to obey an officer. The fine is paid almost immediately, over Dr. King’s objection, by Montgomery Police Commissioner Clyde C. Sellers. September 17: Dr. King’s book Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story is published by Harper & Row. September 20: Mrs. Izola Curry, forty-two, who is subsequently alleged to be mentally deranged, stabs Dr. King in the chest. The stabbing occurs in the heart of Harlem while Dr. King is autographing his recently published book.
n 1959
(Section 2)
April 15: The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) is founded to coordinate student protest at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, on a temporary basis. (it is to become a permanent organization in October, 1960.) Dr. King and James Lawson are the keynote speakers at the Shaw University founding. May 28: An all-white jury in Montgomery acquits Dr. King of the tax evasion charge. June 10: Dr. King and A. Philip Randolph announce plans for picketing both the Republican and Democratic national conventions. June 24: Dr. King has a conference with John F. Kennedy candidate for president of the United States, about racial matters. October 19: Dr. King is arrested at an Atlanta sit-in and is jailed on a charge of violating the state’s trespass law. Oct. 22-27. The Atlanta charges are dropped. All jailed demonstrators are released except for Dr. King, who is held on a charge of violating a probated sentence in a traffic arrest case. He is transferred to the DeKalb County Jail in Decatur, Georgia, and is then transferred to the Reidsville State Prison. He is released from the Reidsville State Prison on a two-thousand-dollar bond.
n 1961
January 30: A third child, Dexter Scott, is born to Dr. and Mrs. King in Atlanta. May 4: The first group of Freedom Riders, intent on integrating interstate buses leaves Washington, D.C., by Greyhound bus. The group, organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE), leaves shortly after the Supreme Court has outlawed segregation in interstate transportation terminals. The bus is burned outside of Anniston, Alabama, on May 14. A mob beats the Riders upon their arrival in Birmingham. The Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, and spend forty to sixty days in Parchman Penitentiary, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (white) December 15: Dr. King arrives in Albany, Georgia, in response to a call from Dr. W. G. Anderson, the leader of the Albany Movement to desegregate public facilities, which began in January 1961.
January 30: Dr. King meets with Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers union, in Detroit. February 2-March 10. Dr. and Mrs. King spend a month in India studying Gandhi’s techniques of nonviolence, as guests of Prime Minister Nehru
December 16: Dr. King is arrested at an Albany demonstration. He is charged with obstructing the sidewalk and parading without a permit.
August 20: Dr. King delivers a speech to the National Bar Association in Milwaukee.
February 2: Dr. King is tried and convicted for leading the December march in Albany.
November 29: Dr. King submits his resignation, effective on the fourth Sunday of January 1960, as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church.
n 1960
January 24: The King family moves to Atlanta. Dr. King to becomes co-pastor, with his father, of the Ebenezer Baptist Church. February 1: The first lunch counter sit-in to desegregate eating facilities is held by students in Greensboro, North Carolina. February 17: A warrant is issued for Dr. King’s arrest on charges that he did not pay his 1956 and 1958 Alabama state income taxes.
n 1962
May 2: Dr. King is invited to join the Birmingham protests. July 27: Dr. King is arrested at an Albany city hall prayer vigil and jailed on charges of failure to obey a police officer, obstructing the sidewalk, and disorderly conduct. September 20: James Meredith makes his first attempt to enroll at the University of Mississippi. He is actually enrolled by Supreme Court order and is escorted onto the Oxford, Mississippi, campus by U.S. Marshals on October 1, 1962. October 16: Dr. King meets with President John F. Kennedy at the White House for an one-hour conference.
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chronology n 1963
March 28: The Kings’ fourth child, Bernice Albertine, is born. March-April. Sit-in demonstrations are held in Birmingham to protest segregation of eating facilities. Dr. King is arrested during a demonstration. April 16: Dr. King writes the “Letter from Birmingham Jail” while imprisoned for demonstrating. May 3-4: T. Eugene (“Bull”) Connor, director of public safety of Birmingham, orders the use of police dogs and fire hoses upon the marching protestors (young adults and children.) May 20: The Supreme Court of the United States rules Birmingham’s segregation ordinances unconstitutional. June 11: Governor George C. Wallace tries to stop the court ordered integration of the University of Alabama by “standing in the schoolhouse door” and personally refusing entrance to black students and Justice Department officials. President John F. Kennedy then federalizes the Alabama National Guard, and Governor Wallace removes himself from blocking the entrance of the Negro students. June 12: Medgar Evers, NAACP leader in Jackson, Mississippi, is assassinated in the early-morning darkness by a rifle bullet, at his home. His memorial service is held in Jackson on June 15: and he is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Washington, D.C., on June 19. August 28: The March on Washington, the first large integrated protest march, is held in Washington, D.C. Dr. King and other civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the White House, and afterwards Dr. King delivers his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. September: Dr. King’s book Strength to Love is published by Harper & Row. September 2-10: Governor Wallace orders the Alabama state troopers to stop the court-ordered integration of Alabama’s elementary and high schools until he is enjoined by court injunction from doing so. By September 10 specific schools are actually integrated by court order. November 22: President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
n 1964
Summer: COFO (Council of Federated Organizations) initiates the Mississippi Summer Project, a voter-registration drive organized and run by black and white students. June 21: Three civil rights workers-James Chaney (black), Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner (white)-are reported missing after a short trip to Philadelphia. May-June: Dr. King joins other SCLC workers in demonstrations for the integration of public accommodations in St. Augustine, Florida. He is jailed. June: Dr. King’s book Why We Can’t Wait is published by Harper & Row.
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July 2: Dr. King attends the signing of the Public Accommodations Bill, part of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, by President Lyndon B. Johnson in the White House. July 18-23: Riots occur in Harlem. One black man is killed. August 4: The bodies of civil rights workers James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner are discovered by FBI agents buried near the town of Philadelphia, Mississippi. Neshoba County Sheriff Rainey and his deputy, Cecil Price, are allegedly implicated in the murders. August: Riots occur in New Jersey, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. September 18. Dr. King has an audience with Pope Paul VI at the Vatican. September. Dr. King and Reverend Ralph Abernathy visit West Berlin at the invitation of Mayor Willy Brandt. December 10: Dr. King receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway. February 21: Blacks in New York City murder Malcolm X, leader of the Organization of Afro-American Unity and former Black Muslim leader.
n 1965
March 7: Marching demonstrators (from SNCC and SCLC led by SCLC’s Hosea Williams are beaten when attempting to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on their planned march to Montgomery, Alabama, from Selma, Alabama, by state highway patrolmen under the direction of Al Lingo, and sheriff ’s deputies under the leadership of Jim Clark. An order by Governor Wallace had prohibited the march. March 9: Unitarian minister James Reeb is beaten by four white segregationists in Selma and dies two days later. March 15: President Johnson addresses the nation and Congress He describes the Voting Rights Bill he will submit to Congress in two days and uses the slogan of the civil rights movement, “We Shall Overcome.” March 16: Sheriff ’s deputies and police on horseback in Montgomery beat black and white demonstrators. March 21-25: Over 3,000 protest marchers leave Selma for a march to Montgomery, protected by federal troops. They are joined along the way by a total of 25,000 marchers. Upon reaching the capitol building they hear an address by Dr. King. March 25: Mrs. Viola Liuzzo, wife of a Detroit Teamsters Union business agent, is shot and killed while driving a car-load of marchers back to Selma. July: Dr. King visits Chicago. SCLC joins with the Coordinating Council of Community Organizations (CCCO), led by Al Raby, in the Chicago Project. August-December: In Alabama, SCLC spearheads voter registration campaigns in Greene, Wilcox, and Eutaw counties, and in the cities of Montgomery and Birmingham. August 6: President Johnson signs the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Chronology August 11-16: In Watts, the black ghetto of Los Angeles, riots leave 35 dead, of whom 28 are black.
n 1966
February: Dr. King rents an apartment in the black ghetto of Chicago. February 23: Dr. King meets with Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Black Muslims in Chicago. March 25: The Supreme Court of the United States rules any poll tax unconstitutional. March: Dr King takes over a Chicago slum building and is sued by its owner. Spring: Dr. King makes a tour of Alabama to help elect black candidates. Spring: The Alabama primary is held, the first time since Reconstruction that blacks have voted in any numbers. May 16: An antiwar statement by Dr. King is read at a large Washington rally to protest the war in Vietnam. Dr. King agrees to serve as co-chairman of Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam. June 6: James Meredith is shot soon after beginning his 220- mile “March Against Fear” from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi. June: Stokely Carmichael and Willie Ricks (SNCC) use the slogan “Black Power” in public for the first time, before reporters in Greenwood, Mississippi. July 10: Dr. King launches a drive to make Chicago an “open city” in regard to housing. August 5: Dr. King is stoned in Chicago as he leads a march through crowds of angry whites in the Gage Park section of Chicago’s Southwest Side. September: SCLC launches a project with the aim of integrating schools in Grenada, Mississippi. Fall. SCLC initiates the Alabama Citizen Education Project in Wilcox County
n 1967
January: Dr. King writes his book Where Do We Go from Here? while in Jamaica. March 12: Alabama is ordered to desegregate all public schools. March 25: Dr. King attacks the government’s Vietnam policy in a speech at the Chicago Coliseum. May 10-11: One black student is killed in rioting on the cam-pus of all-Negro Jackson State College, Jackson Mississippi. July 6: The Justice Department reports that more than 50 percent of all eligible black voters are registered in Mississippi, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, and South Carolina. July 12-17: Twenty-three people die, 725 are injured in riots in Newark, New Jersey.
(Section 4)
July 23-30: Forty-three die, 324 are injured in the Detroit riots, the worst of the century. July 26: Black leaders Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young appeal for an end to the riots, “which have proved ineffective and damaging to the civil rights cause and the entire nation.” October 30: The Supreme Court upholds the contempt-of- court convictions of Dr. King and seven other black leaders who led 1963 marches in Birmingham. Dr. King and his enter jail to serve four-day sentences. November 27: Dr. King announces the formation by SCLC of a Poor People’s Campaign, with the aim of representing the problems poor blacks and whites.
n 1968
February 12: Sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee. March 28:. Dr. King leads six thousand protesters on a march through downtown Memphis in support of striking sanitation workers. Disorders break out during which black youths loot stores. One sixteen-year-old is killed and fifty persons are injured. April 3: Dr. King’s last speech, entitled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” is delivered at the Memphis Masonic Temple. April 4: A sniper assassinates Dr. King as he stands talking on the balcony of his second floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis. He dies in St. Joseph’s Hospital from a gunshot wound in the neck. James Earl Ray is later captured and convicted of the murder.
n 1986
January 18: Following passage of Public Law 98-144, President Ronald Reagan signs a proclamation declaring the third Monday in January of each year a public holiday in honor of the birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr.
n 1998
July 16: President Bill Clinton signed a Joint Resolution authorizing a memorial for Dr. King to be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
n 2006
November 13: Ceremonial Ground Breaking at the National Mall in Washington, D.C. for the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial.
n 2009
October: The Memorial’s final design was approved by federal agencies and a building permit was issued.
n 2011
August 27: Opening of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, Washington, DC. October 16: The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial is officially dedicated by President Barack Obama.
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Patrons Nancy Adams Personnel of Columbia Richard A. and Sarah Alexander Dwight Ausbrooks Calvin R. Austin James C. Bailey Louis C. Baker Tyrone C. Banks Charles and Lucille Barnum Brandon L. Barrett David H. Barrett Fredrica Barrow Mr. and Mrs. Henry R. Bellinger Robert and Evelyn Birdsong Jason K. Bennett Brian Blake Reese L. Boyd Vaughan M. Bradley, Sr. Ann Brooks and Family Sean Brooks Charles G. Brown, Jr. Elizabeth E. Brown Rochelle Brown Sean K. Brown Walter M. Bryant Harold F. Burgess Gregory R. Burks David L. Campbell Vu Cap Vic Carter Chester Chambers Carmon Choice Cecily Y. Christian Greg and Dona Christian Cecil G. Christian, Jr. Kenneth A. Cobb Alzono Cockrell Ken and Mary Cooper Alice and James Cornelison Valerie L. Cunningham, Esq. Bryan C. Cyprian Donald E. Debnam Steven De Foor Gabriel Dennis Steven Denny Cloyd Dodson Bruce W. Dorsey Keith Duke Willie A. Eggleston, Jr. Devynne Espeut Harry Evans III
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