The Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change
Drew, Charles
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Letter from MLK to Alyce BledsoeDr. King thanks the Women's Auxiliary to the Charles R. Drew Medical Society for its contribution to the SCLC. The contribution will be used to send California students to assist in voter registration projects. |
List of Negro InventorsThis list of Negro American inventors includes various individuals such as Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, who performed the first successful open heart surgery, and W.A. Lavalette, who invented the printing press. |
The Negro Past and It's Challenge for the FutureIn honor of Negro History Week, Dr. King offers this speech on the black community's past and future in America. |
Who is Truly GreatDr. King addresses the subject of individual greatness within society and how to truly go about achieving such a status. He begins by dispelling common signifiers of greatness before indicating that greatness can only be substantively measured through the ability to put others before self. Dr. King cites the life of Jesus Christ as an example of humility culminating into greatness. |