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Mary Jane Grant – Seacole
(23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881)

She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. In 2004 she was voted the greatest black Briton.

Mary Seacole is sourrounded by many controversies in what she actually contributed and how she should be honored with but now that the world is knowledgeable about her contributions during the Crimean War of 1853 goverments and historians tread lightly because the event which she was present and facts has been shown they have to do things orderly and respectfully that coincides with honoring this true health provider.

Mary Jane Grant was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of a Scottish soldier that at the time was in the British Army and a free Jamaican woman. Her mother was a "doctress", a healer who used traditional Caribbean and African herbal remedies. She ran Blundell Hall, a boarding house at 7 East Street, considered one of the best hotels in all Kingston. She married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole in Kingston on 10 November 1836. Mary marriage was brief her husband died in October 1844, followed by her mother.
With a reputation that rivals that of Florence Nightingale, Seacole certainly made history. Not only did she cope with prejudice and discrimination, but she was also a selfless nurse, dedicated to providing strong medical services to wounded soldiers. Her hotel which she now soley managed became frequent habitat resting place for the European military visitors to Jamaica.
Her first hand of true hands on nursing came when there was a epidemic of cholera in 1850 which killed approximately 32,000 jamaicans. This took her into the next level of her iconic role in life which was the Crimean War.
In 1851, Seacole travelled to Cruces to see Edward her brother. During her visit to panama another outbreak of disease became prevelant. She treated the less fortunate for free and the wealthy she charged for the treatment . Mary became a savior to some and a respected nurse provider to sick.

Photo Maull & Company in London (c. 1873)

In 1853 the Ceimean War between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the United Kingdom, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea and Turkey. . Mary became very passionate about the wounded and the British War Office and told them what she can offer as medical care. They refused her proposal. She was determined to help and opened a sick provision hotel there on her own to treat the wounded. she would use her knowledge of herbal cure medicines and created splints for injured officers (built out of salvaged materials), and braved enemy fire to nurse the wounded on the battlefield.
Mary Jane Grant Seacole died in 1881 at her home in Paddington, London, from "apoplexy" ( stroke, or bleeding within internal organs ) . A short obituary was published in The Times newspaper on 21 May 1881. She was buried in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Green, London.
Seacole rapidly faded from public memory. Her work in Crimea was overshadowed by Florence Nightingale's for many years. However, in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in her and efforts to properly acknowledge her achievements. Affectionately, she was known as “Mother Seacole.” After her death, she was forgotten for almost a century, but today is celebrated as a woman who successfully was driven by her passion and vision to break the racial prejudice against blacks and what they can accomplish.
She was quoted as an example of :
"hidden" black history in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, like Olaudah Equiano: "See, here is Mary Seacole, who did as much in the Crimea as another magic-lamping lady, but, being dark, could scarce be seen for the flame of Florence's candle." Mary is still remembered in Britain, where many buildings and organizations are named in her honor.

Mary is remembered in the Caribbean, where she was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. The headquarters of the Jamaican General Trained Nurses' Association was christened "Mary Seacole House" in 1954, followed quickly by the naming of a hall of residence of the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. A ward at Kingston Public Hospital was also named in her memory.
Her grave was rediscovered in 1973; a service of reconsecration was held on 20 November 1973, and her impressive gravestone was also restored by the British Commonwealth Nurses' War Memorial Fund and the Lignum Vitae Club. The centenary of her death was celebrated with a memorial service on 14 May 1981. A "green plaque" was unveiled at 147 George Street, in Westminster, on 11 October 200 including a blue plaque has been positioned at 14 Soho Square, where she lived in 1857.
By the 21st century, Seacole was much more prominent. Several buildings and entities, mainly connected with health care, were named after her. In 2007 Seacole was introduced into the National Curriculum, and her life story is taught at many primary schools in the UK .She was voted into first place in an online poll of 100 Great Black Britons.
A Seacole Lane existed in London near the bottom of Fleet Street until the area was redeveloped in the 1980s. One of the first was the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice at Thames Valley University, which they created the NHS Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health, a web-based collection of research-based evidence and good practice information relating to the health needs of minority ethnic groups, and other resources relevant to multi-cultural health care. There is another Mary Seacole Research Centre, this one at De Montfort University in Leicester plus many more.

Mary Jane Grant – Seacole
(23 November 1805 – 14 May 1881)

She was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. In 2004 she was voted the greatest black Briton.

Mary Seacole is sourrounded by many controversies in what she actually contributed and how she should be honored with but now that the world is knowledgeable about her contributions during the Crimean War of 1853 goverments and historians tread lightly because the event which she was present and facts has been shown they have to do things orderly and respectfully that coincides with honoring this true health provider.

Mary Jane Grant was born in Kingston, Jamaica, the daughter of a Scottish soldier that at the time was in the British Army and a free Jamaican woman. Her mother was a "doctress", a healer who used traditional Caribbean and African herbal remedies. She ran Blundell Hall, a boarding house at 7 East Street, considered one of the best hotels in all Kingston. She married Edwin Horatio Hamilton Seacole in Kingston on 10 November 1836. Mary marriage was brief her husband died in October 1844, followed by her mother.
With a reputation that rivals that of Florence Nightingale, Seacole certainly made history. Not only did she cope with prejudice and discrimination, but she was also a selfless nurse, dedicated to providing strong medical services to wounded soldiers. Her hotel which she now soley managed became frequent habitat resting place for the European military visitors to Jamaica.
Her first hand of true hands on nursing came when there was a epidemic of cholera in 1850 which killed approximately 32,000 jamaicans. This took her into the next level of her iconic role in life which was the Crimean War.
In 1851, Seacole travelled to Cruces to see Edward her brother. During her visit to panama another outbreak of disease became prevelant. She treated the less fortunate for free and the wealthy she charged for the treatment . Mary became a savior to some and a respected nurse provider to sick.

Photo Maull & Company in London (c. 1873)

In 1853 the Ceimean War between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the United Kingdom, France, the Kingdom of Sardinia, and the Ottoman Empire. The majority of the conflict took place on the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea and Turkey. . Mary became very passionate about the wounded and the British War Office and told them what she can offer as medical care. They refused her proposal. She was determined to help and opened a sick provision hotel there on her own to treat the wounded. she would use her knowledge of herbal cure medicines and created splints for injured officers (built out of salvaged materials), and braved enemy fire to nurse the wounded on the battlefield.
Mary Jane Grant Seacole died in 1881 at her home in Paddington, London, from "apoplexy" ( stroke, or bleeding within internal organs ) . A short obituary was published in The Times newspaper on 21 May 1881. She was buried in St. Mary's Roman Catholic Cemetery, Harrow Road, Kensal Green, London.
Seacole rapidly faded from public memory. Her work in Crimea was overshadowed by Florence Nightingale's for many years. However, in recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in her and efforts to properly acknowledge her achievements. Affectionately, she was known as “Mother Seacole.” After her death, she was forgotten for almost a century, but today is celebrated as a woman who successfully was driven by her passion and vision to break the racial prejudice against blacks and what they can accomplish.
She was quoted as an example of :
"hidden" black history in Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, like Olaudah Equiano: "See, here is Mary Seacole, who did as much in the Crimea as another magic-lamping lady, but, being dark, could scarce be seen for the flame of Florence's candle." Mary is still remembered in Britain, where many buildings and organizations are named in her honor.

Mary is remembered in the Caribbean, where she was posthumously awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit in 1991. The headquarters of the Jamaican General Trained Nurses' Association was christened "Mary Seacole House" in 1954, followed quickly by the naming of a hall of residence of the University of the West Indies in Mona, Jamaica. A ward at Kingston Public Hospital was also named in her memory.
Her grave was rediscovered in 1973; a service of reconsecration was held on 20 November 1973, and her impressive gravestone was also restored by the British Commonwealth Nurses' War Memorial Fund and the Lignum Vitae Club. The centenary of her death was celebrated with a memorial service on 14 May 1981. A "green plaque" was unveiled at 147 George Street, in Westminster, on 11 October 200 including a blue plaque has been positioned at 14 Soho Square, where she lived in 1857.
By the 21st century, Seacole was much more prominent. Several buildings and entities, mainly connected with health care, were named after her. In 2007 Seacole was introduced into the National Curriculum, and her life story is taught at many primary schools in the UK .She was voted into first place in an online poll of 100 Great Black Britons.
A Seacole Lane existed in London near the bottom of Fleet Street until the area was redeveloped in the 1980s. One of the first was the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice at Thames Valley University, which they created the NHS Specialist Library for Ethnicity and Health, a web-based collection of research-based evidence and good practice information relating to the health needs of minority ethnic groups, and other resources relevant to multi-cultural health care. There is another Mary Seacole Research Centre, this one at De Montfort University in Leicester plus many more.

Dr. Carter Godwin Woodson
(December 19, 1875 – April 3, 1950)
African-American historian, activist, author, journalist ,the founder of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History. Founder of Black History Month . A founder of Journal of Negro History in 1916. He is known as the father of black history.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AALIYAH
A TRUE LADY AND ROLE MODEL WITH TRUE AUTHENTIC TALENT UNMATCHED STILL TODAY A TRIPLE THREAT. YOU WILL ALWAYS BE IN OUR HEARTS. MAY YOU FOREVER REST IN PEACE.

BE WHO YOU WERE CREATED TO BE WHICH IS YOU BE TRUE TO YOURSELF ALWAYS.

DO EVERYTHING IN LIFE WITH FULL MORALS AND INTEGRITY.

DO NOT SETTLE FOR LESS.

KEEP YOUR VISION AND PASSION FOR YOUR DESTINY AND NEVER GIVE UP NO MATTER WHAT COMES YOUR WAY.

Dolores Cooper Shockley
Born: April 21, 1930, Clarksdale, MS
Died: October 10, 2020, Nashville, TN

Dolores Shockley became the first African American woman
to earn a doctorate from the School of Pharmacy and
Pharmaceutical Sciences at Purdue University. She was also
the first African American woman to receive a doctorate in
pharmacology in the United States. She is the retired Head of
Pharmacology at Meharry Medical College in Nashville.

Professor Dolores Cooper Shockley was born in Clarksdale,
Mississippi, on April 21, 1930, in Clarksdale, Mississippi to a
successful family of professionals. Due to her passion for the
world of science, her parents encouraged her to purchasing
chemistry materials for her. As she was excellent in school
her viewpoints on how the blacks in the community were
lacking certain medical needs. Dolores through this need
had in her mind to attend school to become a pharmacist.
Her family knew better and had Delores enrolled and
attended an out-of-town private Presbyterian school in
order for her passion for chemistry would be fulfilled. After
high school, she earned a B.S. in pharmacy 1951 from
Xavier University in New Orleans. Having been accepted
into eight graduate schools, Cooper chose to continue her
studies at Purdue University. After earning her Ph.D. in
pharmacology in 1955, Cooper received a Fulbright
Fellowship to the Pharmacology Institute in Copenhagen
which allowed her to do postdoctoral research at the
University of Copenhagen in Denmark. As she stated it took
two months to sail there. During that tenure, she would visit
pharmacology departments in Sweden, Norway and
Findland.

After completing her research she returned back to the
United States 1n 1957, Meharry Medical College in Nashville,
Tennessee accredited Medical School in the nation offered
her appointment position as assistant professor of
pharmacology she accepted. She was met with a lot of
skepticism from the staff but with her vision and passion

Delores proved herself as a woman of color. She became
a valued and respected member of the faculty. In 1967 she
was promoted to associate professor, and ten years later she
became head of the college's department of microbiology.
She has since served also as Meharrys foreign student
advisor and its liaison for international activities to the
Association of American Medical Colleges.

She was visiting assistant professor at the Einstein College of
Medicine in New York City from 1959 to 1962 and was a
recipient of the Lederle Faculty Award from 1963 to 1966.
Shockley is married to William Shockley, a microbiologist
whom she met at Meharry and has four children. In 1988
Dolores Cooper Shockley was appointed acting chair of the
Department of Pharmacology at Meharry and in1994 was
made permanent chair making this the First and the only
time that African-American women held this chair in the
nation.
Her husband passed away after 43 years together. Delores is
also related to Fred Cooper, Co-founder of the Purdue
Society of Black Engineers and Michelle Cooper, the first
female National Treasurer of the National Society of Black
Engineers.
Delores is a participant in LINKS a national organization
that encourages young girls to pursue the field of science. In
her home church, she tutors and mentors children as a service
to give back. Dolores's main research is drug abuse. As she has stated in
interviews, She has been working with agents called
pharmoctherapies for combating acute and chronic
stimulants such as co***ne and amphetamines. In one of her
discovery, she made a group of drugs called Ca++ channel
blockers. The agents have the potential for treating patients with
co***ne dependency and addicts who overdose and are
taken to an ER. She found that there is a certain benefit but a
high dosage of these agents can become toxic. Other labs
have confirmed her team's findings as well. Another area of
her interest is to study more on the reaction of co***ne to the
brain’s neurotransmitters.

Professor Dolores Cooper Shockley has served on numerous
national committees including NIH(The National Institutes
of Health ), NSF ( National Science Foundation ), NRC (
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ) and FDA ( Food Drug
Administration ) Committees. She has held offices at the
American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental
Therapeutics (ASPET). The Society established a travel
Award in her honor for students to attend the national
meeting for Experimental Biology. The Dolores C. Shockley
Lectureship and Mentoring Award was inaugurated at the
School of Medicine, Vanderbilt University in 2009.

IN HER OWN WORDS.
The education I received at Purdue was well worth the
subtle and not-so-subtle indignities that I suffered. I am
proud to be a graduate of Purdue. Purdue prepared me for
the rigor of teaching and research at a medical school.
Thanks to Dr. Tom Miya, all pharmacology grad students
were proficient in techniques and had in-depth studies of
past and current scientific literature.
I know and am very pleased that things have changed
dramatically since my matriculation at Purdue and West
Lafayette. I have a niece and a nephew who graduated from
Purdue in engineering in the seventies, and they find it hard
to believe some of my experiences. I can truthfully say that I
consider myself blessed to have degrees from Purdue
University.
second photo perdue university

Curtis Benjamin Roberts
August -16 -1929 - November -14-1969

First African American to play baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates on April 13, 1954.

Born: August 16, 1929, Pineland, TX
Died: November 14, 1969, Oakland, CA
Education: McClymonds High School

Curt was born on August 16,1929- November 14, 1969. A native of Pineland, Texas, but raised in Oakland, California. He attended McClymonds High School in west Oakland, at age 17 h3 began his professional career with the Kansas City Monarch in the Negro Leagues. By doing so he made a reputation for himself He also played in the Minor League of Baseball (MiLB) and the Mexican League before joining up with the Pirates. Branch Rickey the General Manager at the time signed him to the team after facing mounting pressure from the local black community. He was chosen not only for his baseball skills but also for his calm personality. His MLB career was destined to be short-lived, however, as his batting average dropped significantly in his second season with the Pirates. The mounting racial verbal abuse, he was receiving from all areas definitely was affecting his game which led to him being cut from the team in the 1955 season. He continued playing for multiple minor league teams and retired completely in 1963. He was married with six children. When his baseball career ended, he worked as a security guard for the University of California in Berkley.

Guy Benjamin Roberts died at age 40 in Oakland California when an automobile struck him while he was hit changing a tire on his car. His former Pirates teammates only learned of his death 20 years later when being interviewed for a newspaper article. Although Roberts's career was short he opened the door for other black players to debut for the Pirates and on other teams.

Source: Baseball Hall of Fame.com

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968

The leader and voice that brought about a change in black America and brought all people of different cultures together.

American Baptist minister, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs.

Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, to Reverend Martin Luther King, SR., and Alberta Williams King. Martin, Jr., was a middle child, between an older sister, Willie Christine King, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel Williams King. King attended Booker T. Washington High School. At age 15 he was accepted into Morehouse College. in 1947, an eighteen-year-old King made the choice to enter the ministry after he concluded the church offered the most assuring way to answer "an inner urge to serve humanity". King's "inner urge" had begun developing and he made peace with the Baptist Church, as he believed he would be a "rational" minister with sermons that were "a respectful force for ideas, even social protest."
In 1948, he graduated from Morehouse with a B.A. degree in sociology and enrolled in Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with a B.Div degree in 1951. King's father fully supported his decision to continue his education.

King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful 1962 struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia (the Albany Movement), and helped organize the 1963 nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. There, he established his reputation as one of the greatest orators in American history.
On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches, and the following year he and SCLC took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. In the final years of his life, King expanded his focus to include poverty and speak against the Vietnam War, alienating many of his liberal allies with a 1967 speech titled "Beyond Vietnam".


In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington, D.C., to be called the Poor People's Campaign, when he was assassinated on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many U.S. cities. Allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert with government agents persisted for decades after the shooting.

King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a holiday in numerous cities and states beginning in 1971, and as a U.S. federal holiday in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been renamed in his honor, and a county in Washington State was also renamed for him. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., was dedicated in 2011
To note: FBI director J. Edgar Hoover personally ordered surveillance of King, with the intent to undermine his power as a civil rights leader. According to the Church Committee, a 1975 investigation by the U.S. Congress, "From December 1963 until his death in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to 'neutralize' him as an effective civil rights leader."
THE SPEECH OF ALL SPEECHES:
The 17-minute speech, later known as "I Have a Dream". In the speech's most famous passage—in which he departed from his prepared text, possibly at the prompting of Mahalia Jackson, who shouted behind him, "Tell them about the dream!"—King said:
I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.'
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
I have a dream today.
I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of interposition and nullification; one day right there in Alabama, little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.
I have a dream today.
He left behind his beautiful wife Coretta Scott King whom he wed in 1953 and his four children Dexter Scott King, Yland King, Beatrice King, and Martin Luther King III.
Mrs. Coretta Scott King passed away on January 30, 2006. Dr. King and Corretta are both buried together in a mausoleum surrounded by water.

EDUCATION:
Washington High School
Boston University 1957-1955
Crozer Theological Seminary 1948-1951
Morehouse College 1944-1948

ESTABLISHMENTS:
Dr. Martin Luther King formed the Southern Christian Leadership Council (S.C.L.C.) in 1957.

Memorials and eponymous places and buildings

Martin Luther King Jr. Street at Liberty Bell Park in Jerusalem, Israel

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Yerba Buena Gardens
There are numerous memorials to King in the United States, including:
More than 730 cities in the United States have streets named after King
King County, Washington, rededicated its name in his honor in 1986, and changed its logo to an image of his face in 2007.
The city government center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, is named in honor of King.
In 1980, the U.S. Department of the Interior designated King's boyhood home in Atlanta and several nearby buildings the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site.
A bust of King was added to the "gallery of notables" in the United States Capitol in 1986, portraying him in a "restful, nonspeaking pose."
The beginning words of King's "I Have a Dream" speech are etched on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, at the place where King stood during that speech. These words from the speech—"five short lines of text carved into the granite on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial"—were etched in 2003, on the 40th anniversary of the march to Washington, by stone carver Andy Del Gallo, after a law was passed by Congress providing authorization for the inscription.
In 1996, Congress authorized the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, of which King is still a member, to establish a foundation to manage fund raising and design of a national Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.] King was the first African American and the fourth non-president honored with his own memorial in the National Mall area. The memorial opened in August 2011 and is administered by the National Park Service.The address of the monument, 1964 Independence Avenue, S.W., commemorates the year that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law.
The Landmark for Peace Memorial in Indianapolis, Indiana
The Homage to King sculpture in Atlanta, Georgia
The Dream sculpture in Portland, Oregon
The National Civil Rights Museum, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, where King died
Brown Chapel A.M.E. Church in Selma, Alabama
Numerous other memorials honor him around the world, including:
The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Church in Debrecen, Hungary
The King-Luthuli Transformation Center in Johannesburg, South Africa
The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Forest in Israel's Southern Galilee region (along with the Coretta Scott King Forest in Biriya Forest, Israel)
The Martin Luther King, Jr. School in Accra, Ghana
The Gandhi-King Plaza (garden), at the India International Center in New Delhi, India


Awards:
King was awarded at least fifty honorary degrees from colleges and universities
Nobel Peace Prize – the youngest to ever received this recognition in 1964
Time Person of the Year Award
in 1966, King was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album in 1971 for his Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam
Congressional Gold Medal
Jawaharlal Nehru Award for international Understanding
In 1957, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP
In 1966, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America awarded King the Margaret Sanger Award for "his courageous resistance to bigotry and his lifelong dedication to the advancement of social justice and human dignity"
In November 1967 he made a 24-hour trip to the United Kingdom to receive an honorary degree from Newcastle University, being the first African American to be so honored by Newcastle
Anifield Wolf Book Awards
awarded the American Liberties Medallion by the American Jewish Committee for his "exceptional advancement of the principles of human liberty
Liturgical commemorations
King is remembered as a martyr by the Episcopal Church in the United States of America with an annual feast day on the anniversary of his death, April 4. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America commemorates King liturgically on the anniversary of his birth, January 15.
UK legacy and The Martin Luther King Peace Committee
In the United Kingdom, The Northumbria and Newcastle Universities Martin Luther King Peace Committee exists to honour King's legacy, as represented by his final visit to the UK to receive an honorary degree from Newcastle University in 1967. The Peace Committee operates out of the chaplaincies of the city's two universities, Northumbria and Newcastle, both of which remain centers for the study of Martin Luther King and the US Civil Rights Movement. Inspired by King's vision, it undertakes a range of activities across the UK as it seeks to "build cultures of peace."
In 1977, the Presidential Medal of Freedom was posthumously awarded to King by President Jimmy Carter. The citation read:
Martin Luther King, Jr., was the conscience of his generation. He gazed upon the great wall of segregation and saw that the power of love could bring it down. From the pain and exhaustion of his fight to fulfill the promises of our founding fathers for our humblest citizens, he wrung his eloquent statement of his dream for America. He made our nation stronger because he made it better. His dream sustains us yet

QUOTES.

“I have decided to stick to love...Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”