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Ableton on Air has been seen in the following publications, Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx dot com, New York Powered Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW dot H dot com and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television, Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England Chapter and the Society of Professional Journalists. Welcome to this edition of Ableton on Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns and achievements of the definitely able. I've always been your host Lauren Syrah. I'm Lauren Syrah. And before we begin our show today, we would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services and many others including the support from including partners such as Central Vermont, Habitat for Humanity and Yacar, New York and New England, the Alphadocs Union and many others also including the Montpelier, the Sustainable Montpelier Coalition and the Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Vermont and the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Vermont. On this show today, which will also air, if it's airing now or going to air now, it will also air in January in time for Martin Luther King Junior's birthday. Also talk about Martin Luther King Junior's work and the Poor People's Campaign. Anything you want to say before we begin? December 1st, December 1st, 1955 was the bus boycott in Alabama. Yeah. So Martin Luther King Junior was born January 15, 1929 and he was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. From 1955 until his assassination in 1968, King advanced civil rights through non-violence and civil disobedience that inspired by his Christian beliefs and the non-violent activism of Mahatma Gandhi, M-A-H-A-T-M-A Gandhi. He was the son of civil rights activists and Minister Martin Luther King Senior. King participated and led marches for blacks right to vote, desegregation, labor rights, and basic civil rights. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott with Rosa Parks. King led the 1955 Montgomery bus boycott and later became the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, S-C-L-C. As president of the S-C-L-C, he led the unsuccessful Albany Movement in Albany, Georgia and helped organize some of the non-violent 1963 protests in Birmingham, Alabama. King helped organize the 1963 march on Washington where he delivered his famous I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. The S-C-L-C put into practice tactics of non-violent protests and some strategically choosing the methods and places in which protests were carried out. There were several dramatic standoffs with segregationist authorities who sometimes turned violent. The Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover considered King a radical and made him an object of the FBI's Cuntel probe from 1963 forward. The FBI agents investigated him for possible communist ties recorded his extramarital affairs and reported them to government officials. In 1964, Hoover mailed King a threatening anonymous letter which was interpreted as an attempt to make him commit suicide. On October 14th, and this is all from Wikipedia, on October 14th, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for combating radical inequality through nonviolent resistance. In 1965, he helped organize two of the three summits of Montgomery marches. In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition to his property, capitalism, and the Vietnam War. In 1968, King was planning a national occupation of Washington D.C. to be called the Poor People's Campaign, which he was assassinated on April 4th in Memphis, Tennessee. His death followed by riots in U.S. cities, allegations that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of killing King, had been framed or acted in concert of government agents persisted for decades. After the shooting, King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and the Congressional Medal of Honor in 2003. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a holiday in cities and states throughout the United States beginning in 1971. The holiday was enacted on the federal level by legislation signed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986. Hundreds of streets in the U.S. have been named in his honor. And the most populous county in Washington state was re-dedicated to him. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. was dedicated in 2011. Early life, and by the way, I want to show this book. The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. edited by Claiborne Carson. Anybody that is watching can get this book at any bookstore and it has pretty good pictures in here. I'm just showing you pretty good pictures in here, but it details his life. The birth, life, and education of Martin Luther King. King was born Michael, Michael King, Jr. on January 25, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. And the second of three children, Michael King, Alberta King, and King's mother named him Michael, which entered on his birth certificate by attending the position King's older sister, Christine King, Farris and his younger brother, Alfred King's. So you can go to Wikipedia.com and look up his family tree and talks about his early childhood, his Morehouse College degrees and the sit-ins and all this other thing. But what I really want to talk about is the Poor People's Campaign, which King started. So let's go to that website. For more information on the Poor People's Campaign, you can go to www.poorpeoplescampaign.org, which was started by Martin Luther King. So let's talk about the Covenant of Nonviolence, which is important because Martin Luther King really talked about that. Poor People's Campaign, the national call for more revival, Covenant of Nonviolence. There's at least 140 million people in this country who are impacted by interlocking injustices of systematic racism, poverty, and ecological devastation, militarism, and the false narrative of Christian nationalism and other religions. The Poor People's Campaign believes that nonviolent struggle has the power to end injustices, such as respect towards all, speaking about truth and power and not to defeat injustices of the people, which includes health care and different things. Now, during the pandemic, the Poor People's Campaign has been working on health care, COVID-19 testing, and a bunch of things. Number two, guarantee quality health care for all, regardless of pre-existing conditions. And they're also trying to get better wages. They're also trying to enact fair taxes for people. And they're also trying, the Poor People's Campaign is trying to advocate on the president's agenda of, you know, for better health care, despite age, gender, sexual orientation, disability, and so on. So, yeah, enact federal jobs, programs to build up investments, infrastructure, public institutions, climate resilience, energy efficiency, socially beneficial industries, and jobs in poor and low-income communities. Anything you want to say about that? Jobs in low-income communities. And the Poor People's Campaign expands public and affordable housing and rental assistance, stops all foreclosures, evictions immediately, enact a rent freeze, including stopping all creases and rent, and cancels rent and mortgage payments that cannot be paid, moves the burden of proof off renters and households that are facing eviction to the financial interest and seeking evictions. So, yeah, so more, more information on the Poor People's Campaign. You can go to www.PoorPeople'sCampaign.org forward slash resource, policy, and legislative priorities. The King family was living in Montgomery for less than a year when a highly segregated city became the epicenter for the virgin struggle of civil rights in America, galvanizing by a landmark of Brown versus Board of Education decision in 1954. On December 1st, 1955, Rosa Parks secretary, secretary of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Color People and NAACP refused, she refused to give a receipt to a white passenger on the Montgomery bus and was arrested. Activists coordinated the bus boycott and would continue for 381 days. The Montgomery bus boycott placed a severe economic strain on public transit systems in downtown with downtown business owners. They chose Martin Luther King Jr. as the protest leader and official spokesman. By the time the Supreme Court ruled a segregated seating on public buses unconstitutional in November of 1956, King heavily influenced by Mahatma Gandhi and activist Bayard Rustin had entered the national spotlight on international proponent and organized nonviolent resistance. King had also become a target of white supremacy and fire bombed his home in that January. On, we only have a couple minutes left. So on, on September 20th, 1958, Izola where Curry walked into a Harlem department store, let me go here, walked into a Harlem department store where King was signing books and asked, are you Martin Luther King? When he replied yes, she stabbed him in the chest with a knife. King survived and attempted assassination, only reinforced by dedication to nonviolence. The experience lasted a few days and deepened my faith of of reverence on the spirit of nonviolence and necessary social change is peace will peacefully or has peacefully taken place according to Dr. King. So if you want to find out more about the Montgomery bus boycott, you can go to the history channel. So www.history.com forward slash black history, Martin Luther King Junior. And I want to bring up two other resources here. The Rosa Parks Museum is located at Troy University in Montgomery, Alabama. So we can go to that page icon Rosa Parks. I don't know if because of COVID if they're open or not, but you might want to check if anybody is in who's watching the show, who's in Alabama at the time, but the museum's collection contains a number of historical historical significant artifacts, including the original fingerprint arrest of Roe of Miss Parks in 1950s era Montgomery civil rights bus boycott original works and statutory and quilts court documents and police reports and it also has the original bus there. So you might you can check that out or a part of the bus at the museum. So for more information on the Rosa Parks Museum, you can go to www.troy.edu. That's www.troy TROY.edu. It's a university in Alabama and also one more resource that I would like to let everybody know about. There's a TV movie that was done in 1970s. We can talk about it for a couple of minutes. King is a 1978 American television miniseries based on the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights leader. It aired in three consecutive nights on NBC from February 12th to February 14th, 1978. It starred Paul Winfield and Cicely Tyson. Let's take a look at King from 1978. Let's take a look at the trailer of the life. It's a dramatization of the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Let's take a look at this. There comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. People get tired of being flung across the abyss of humiliation. Feet of ring, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing the words of that old Negro spiritual, free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we're free at last. Thank you for watching today. This program will also, if it's not airing now, it will also air in January. I would like to thank our sponsors, Washington County Mental Health, Green Mountain Support Services, and many others, including the partnership of the American Association for the Blind, of Vermont and the Division for the Blind of Vermont as well as many others, including the Montpelier Sustainable Montpelier Coalition and the Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity. I'm Lauren Seiler. Remember, civil rights is important to people with special needs and many others around the world. See you next time. Major sponsors for Ableton on Air include Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to live home in the community, Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support come together. Media sponsors for Ableton on Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, this is the Bronx.info, Associated Press Media Additors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, U.S. Press Corps Domestic and International, Anchor FM, and Spotify. Partners for Ableton on Air include Yechad of New York and New England, where everyone belongs, the Orthodox Union, the Division for the Blind and Visually Impaired of Vermont, the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Central Vermont Habitat for Humanity and Montpelier Sustainable Coalition, Montefere Medical Center of the Bronx, Rose of Kennedy Center of Bronx, New York, Albert Einstein College of Medicine of the Bronx. Ableton on Air has been seen in the following publications, Park Chester Times, WWW, this is the Bronx.com, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, www.h.com, and the Montpelier Bridge. Ableton on Air is part of the following organizations, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Boston, New England chapter, and the Society of Professional Journalists.