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four score and seven years ago January fifteenth
two thousand seventeenthfather of civil rights
movement the revered martin Luther king junior
honoredas benevolent demigod figure to the
oppressed African American population without
whose bold risks and subsequent assassination
April fourth ninety sixty eight at the hands of a
crazed gunman (James Earl Ray), wrought empower
ment advancing dreams of slaves recent descendents
allowing, enabling and providing once attainable
aspirations only bestowed upon the self anointed
masters and early settles of the virginal North
American contiguous landmass yet…generations
prior to this prestigious public personality Abolitionists
pitted themselves against the institution of slavery
incrementally raising awareness per the abomination
forced servitude incurred on those shackled
thus setting the stage for this grandson of A.D. Williams
a rural parsonage who ministered spiritual support
for the small congregation (initially only thirteen
members) comprising attendants at Ebenezer Baptist
church in Atlanta Georgia setting precedent for
freedom (at risk of life and limb) against scourge of
racial prejudice courtesy of sharecropper grand parents
whose objection to racial segregation based on an
affront to the will of God, whereby the young whip
smart precocious lad, (whose impact we now memorialize)
showed his true colorful promise when a young student at
Liberal Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester,
Pennsylvania, where the yet uncrowned eminent King
came under the influence of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr,
a classmate of his father's at Morehouse College, who
became a mentor by exposing his protégée to liberal
views of theology planting the seeds of ardent activism
that gave rise to The Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC) an initial platform hoisting his
status as thee most articulate orator spelling binding
the listeners with his metaphors about his emphatic
march to a promised land where all men/women
could be brothers/sisters and no person will be judged
by the color of his/her skin raising morale of many
dirt poor ebony masses to feel a glimmer of hope!
