https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:37:00 PDT Recent News and Featured Documents from the Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/genevieve_hughes_houghton_original_core_freedom_rider_died_tuesday/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/genevieve_hughes_houghton_original_core_freedom_rider_died_tuesday/#id:2548#date:15:37 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:03 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/october_1960_atlanta_sit_ins/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/october_1960_atlanta_sit_ins/#id:2545#date:19:38
Read the statement King prepared for his arraignment the afternoon of his arrest.

Click here to read a letter prepared by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee urging fellow students to voice their support for King and the sit-in protesters to local politicians.

]]> Tue, 02 Oct 2012 21:56 PDT #id:2539#date:19:03 Brown v. Board of Education. Confronted on that day by a mob of segregationists and the Arkasnsas National Guard, the Little Rock Nine did not successfully enter the school until they were escorted through a side door under police protection nearly three weeks later.

Click here to read more details about the Little Rock Nine's integration saga.

King sent a 9 September 1957 telegram to President Dwight D. Eisenhower urging Federal action to end the crisis.

Glenn Smiley, National Field Secretary with the Fellowship of Reconciliation, wrote an eyewitness account of his experience in Little Rock during the crisis. ]]> Mon, 10 Sep 2012 20:27 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/kings_impression_of_jamaica/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/kings_impression_of_jamaica/#id:2537#date:20:15 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 21:28 PDT #id:2536#date:15:15 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka which outlawed segregation in education, overturned the "separate but equal" decision established in Plessy v. Ferguson, and provided a spark to ignite the civil rights movement. To read more about the decision and its impact, click on the links below.

To read about the court decision.
Thurgood Marshall argued the case before the Supreme Court.
The most noteworthy test of the Court's ruling came in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 16:52 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/nicholas_katzenbach_attorney_general_for_lyndon_baines_johnson_dead_at_90/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/nicholas_katzenbach_attorney_general_for_lyndon_baines_johnson_dead_at_90/#id:2535#date:16:37 Fri, 11 May 2012 18:09 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/patricia_stephans_due_ordinary_person_extraordinary_life_died_tuesday/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/patricia_stephans_due_ordinary_person_extraordinary_life_died_tuesday/#id:2534#date:17:53 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:46 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/the_negro_is_part_of_that_huge_community_who_seek_new_freedom_in_every_area/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/the_negro_is_part_of_that_huge_community_who_seek_new_freedom_in_every_area/#id:2532#date:17:48 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:57 PDT #id:2531#date:15:34 Browder v. Gayle The case that ended the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
King travels to India, 1959 King travels to the land of Gandhi and massive nonviolent resistance.
Student Sit-ins in Greensboro, N.C., 1960 Students demand service at lunchcounters sparking a nationwide movement.
]]> Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:20 PDT #id:2530#date:18:11 See Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Montgomery Improvement Association Press Release
Southern Christian Leadership Conference "Statement to the South and the Nation"]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:44 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/king_holiday_2012/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/king_holiday_2012/#id:2526#date:20:44 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:40 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/2012_king_holiday_events/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/2012_king_holiday_events/#id:2527#date:15:44 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:39 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/news_release_king_institute_celebrates_new_memorial_on_national_mall/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/news_release_king_institute_celebrates_new_memorial_on_national_mall/#id:2528#date:15:44 The event is free and open to the public.]]> Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:39 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/robert_l_carter_federal_judge_arbitor_and_author_dies_at_94/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/robert_l_carter_federal_judge_arbitor_and_author_dies_at_94/#id:2529#date:23:37 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:00 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/civil_rights_activist_robert_mants_passes_away_7_december/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/civil_rights_activist_robert_mants_passes_away_7_december/#id:2525#date:22:37 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 23:44 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/desegregating_montgomerys_buses/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/desegregating_montgomerys_buses/#id:2524#date:15:48 Montgomery Bus Boycott. Begun in December 1955, the year-long campaign resulted in the desegregation of the city bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, provided one of the most memorable examples of direct action demonstrations in the history of the United States, and vaulted Dr. King into the national spotlight as the leader of the civil rights movement.

Check out some of the major highlights of the boycott:

Leaflet, "Don't Ride The Bus".
Listen to Dr. King's Address to the First MIA Mass Meeting.
Read the "Integrated Bus Suggestions" distributed by the MIA following the integreation of city buses.

]]> Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:21 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/dont_ride_the_bus_the_montgomery_bus_boycott_begins/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/dont_ride_the_bus_the_montgomery_bus_boycott_begins/#id:2523#date:17:42 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 18:59 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/eddie_brown_jr_civil_and_human_rights_advocate_dies_at_age_70/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/eddie_brown_jr_civil_and_human_rights_advocate_dies_at_age_70/#id:2522#date:16:15 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 17:45 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/my_pilgrimage_to_nonviolence1/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/my_pilgrimage_to_nonviolence1/#id:2427#date:16:35 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:57 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/walk_to_freedom_with_martin_luther_king_jr/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/walk_to_freedom_with_martin_luther_king_jr/#id:2502#date:13:00 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:56 PDT #id:2521#date:17:56 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:59 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/bernard_lafayatte_jr_the_siege_of_the_freedom_riders/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/bernard_lafayatte_jr_the_siege_of_the_freedom_riders/#id:2484#date:15:28 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:31 PDT #id:2519#date:17:12 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:15 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/fred_l_shuttlesworth_iconic_civil_rights_leader_from_birmingham_died_wednes/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/fred_l_shuttlesworth_iconic_civil_rights_leader_from_birmingham_died_wednes/#id:2517#date:17:33 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:52 PDT https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/fred_l_shuttlesworth_civil_rights_hero/ https://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/index.php/news/article/fred_l_shuttlesworth_civil_rights_hero/#id:2518#date:20:36 here.]]> Wed, 05 Oct 2011 21:38 PDT