European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 15, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                January 1981 the stars and stripes Page 9 15 Marks civil rights leaders birth Kings dream is still remembered by Gary Bloomfield editors note today is the 52nd anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King in in this birthday Gary Bloomfield of the Public affairs office at Usa eur he notes important moments in the adult life of this extraordinary civil rights i have a dream those four simple words Are All that needs to be said for americans to some Martin Luther during the when the civil rights movement spoke out and demanded to be King was urging the Black minority to fight for civil rights through not love or this is the Beauty of it says you can struggle without hating you can fight a War with out and fight he in after graduating from More House College and Crozer theological King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Mont soon afterwards King was involved in his and Many consider his contribution to civil rights when he organized a 382day Boycott of the cites segregated bus organized Black leaders during those 13 King was arrested and including the bomb ing of his but he and the Black Community of Montgomery stood their ground until the supreme court ruled that Alabama Laws requiring bus segregation were Kings next goal was to Lay the foundation for organizing Black leaders in the uniting their efforts in helping other communities fight segregation and the Southern Christian leadership conference was born from Kings the year 1963 became bittersweet for King and the civil rights the bitterness came in when King spearheaded a mass pro test urging establishment of a biracial fair hiring practices and the desegregation of the cites department the protest was met by police brutality and Kings but again the Black Community held together until changes were that same year Kings i have a dream proclamation highlighted the historic March of followed by time Magazine naming him Man of the Nobel prize Winner the capstone came several months later when King received the 1964 Nobel peace after returning from where he received the King continued his nonviolent fight for civil rights by leading a vote registration drive in which ended with the Selma to Montgomery Freedom from there he headed to Chicago to work on slum rehabilitation and new housing and it was in Chicago that King met resistance not Only from the but also from disenchanted Black who Felt violence should be countered with but King held firm on his nonviolent speaking before the United nations he let us save our National steel plans increase of prices by percent Pittsburgh up steel announced it is increasing steel prices by an average of effective with ship ments of March the nations j steelmaker said the Price boost will increase total steel revenues about steel said additional revenues were needed to help cover the Impact of Cost Honor Stop the let us save american lives and vietnamese lives Stop the and it was this speech that reunified the civil rights forcing the Black militants to relinquish their once again King directed his efforts to Domestic planning a massive March of the poor on designed to urge Congress to recognize and implement civil rights but during the King decided he was needed More in Memphis to support the Cit sanitation workers Kings premonition the Tennessee National guard had been called which Only incited the strik ers creating several Days of violence and until the troops finally de King stayed on in Memphis to Lead a nonviolent March through the in Defiance of a Federal court injunction against on the night of april King had a premonition of what was soon to he told a Church gathering i dont know what will happen now but it really Doest he sounded weary from All the demonstrations and the harassment and arrests that had been his life for the past 13 he had denounced never Rais ing his fist in fighting for civil yet tragically on april King was felled by an assassins Bullet As he stood on a Motel Balcony with Jesse Jackson and Ralph the news of Kings death was accompanied by Waves of violence in major cities throughout the country an ironic epitaph to a Man so dedicated to we mourn his death by celebrating his birthday 1929 1 still have a it is a dream deeply rooted in the american that one Day this nation will Rise up and live out the True meaning of its Creed we hold these truths to be that All men Are created he did it his Way protest was always part of Martin Luther Kings whether he was marching in for a slain Friend above or condemning those responsible for the deaths of Black Chil Dren in below Kings message was the same racial violence must be fought with a