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The final pages of the article in
"Montgomery Bus Boycott: In a Nutshell-
A Chronology" by Uriah J. Fields
The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr. The following excerpt consisting of the last several pages of the sixty-six page article, "The Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. is taken from "Montgomery Bus Boycott: In a Nutshell - A Chronology" by Uriah J. Fields
Uriah J. Fields was a founder and original secretary of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) and Martin Luther king, Jr., was a founder and president of the MIA that gave structure to and conducted the Montgomery Bus Boycott following the arrest of Rosa Parks who refused to give her bus seat to a white man.
The legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., is a gift for humanity and is of great value. It has been paid for sacrifically. In his struggle for justice he gave his life or, more correctly, it was taken away from him because of what he stood for. His Legacy is efficacious and redemptive Better than anyone except Jesus, he motivated and encouraged people in a way that they had not experienced in modern times if, indeed before, to take seriously the possibility and probability that they can create brotherhood. the Beloved Community, and a societal transformation. Because of King many more people than before have become involved in transforming society. They have and continue to accept the challenge he made when he urged them to improve upon what their parents and fore-parents and fore-mothers had done and not just settle for or resign to limiting themselves to their fore-fathers' and fore-mothers' achievements.
The abuse of black people is one of the wrongs their white parents and fore-fathers and fore-mothers had committee that he inspired them to address rather than to ignore or refuse to respond to positively and humanely. He challenged them to refuse to agree that their fore-parents were right in supporting slavery and practicing racial discrimination.
In response to King's demonstration of caring about those who are unjustly treated, many young people broke with their parents, with tradition and rejected white supremacy. They responded to King's admonition which was the same call the Prophet Amos made when he said, "But let justice run down like waters, and righteousness like an overflowing stream." (Amos 5:24). Because of King, people began to feel and demonstrate that individually or collectively they could make a difference that matters.
My prayer and charge, and it is a mandate as well, to readers of this volume and to those they share this message with is resolve to consciously embrace the "Legacy of Martin Luther King. Jr." with the awareness that each individaul has to work out his own personal salvation for himself in fear and trembling, but that we can help one another to find meaning, and in doing this we become better and we help to create a better world. Both we and the world are still in the making. These are things King realized and endeavored to assist others in knowing, and knowing commit to work for the creation of a just society. Creation is in the making still.
King is one of the few extraordinarily gifted and distinguished Masters of all human existence who have kept alive the "Paradise Regained" hope that is rooted in the divine promise that we can live in a just society.
This is our inheritance. Let us "claim our inheritance" and transmit King's legacy to our children and teach them to pass it on so it will live in perpetuity.
Our Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Our tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Our man of the century and for time
immemorial,
We honor you for the life you lived
and for the things that you have done.
Oh civil rights champion par excllence
and a Nobel Peace Prize winner,
America, your beloved and native land,
has established, in your honor, the
National Martin Luther King, Jr.
Holiday. Your contemporaries cherish
your legacy. And they are confident
that generation after generation will
also treasure it. Your presence is
pronounced. It will live in perpetuity.
:Martin Luther King, Jr. we love you,
we salute: you; We thank you.: (Fade)
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Addendum
The Black Lives Matter movement in the
Twenty-first century is an indication of the
impact of The Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Legacy. If King was alive he would be
involved in this movement and he is proud
to see young people and others of every
race, religion, creed and gender participating
in the transformation of society. Hallelujah!
Copyright 2020 by Uriah J. Fields
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And then, later in the fall of 1979 in the Atlanta University Center bookstore, a freshman at the Center, Martin Luther King III, came in with with (Daddy) Martin Luther King Sr., parking their car illegally on the street so that the young man could buy his books and the old man could sign autographs with all the students coming around to greet him.
At the counter, Daddy King announced, "Charge it," to the cashier. She refused. Apparently, the old preacher had a habit of charging things around Atlanta without a credit card and never paying. The younger King became embarrassed and said, "Daddy, the car is waiting, we need to go." They left. He must've had to come back later to get his books.
I guess Martin Luther King Jr's. admonishment to parents was true. He was better than his father and, hopefully, his son has been better than he, although not the public figure that his father was, or even his grandfather. It is certainly hard better than a legend.
Ron