My sumptuous canvas by Joshua Ratchford https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2019-04-30 12:31:15 UTC 2023-08-20 01:35:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Martin Luther King Jr ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355393149 Martin Luther King Jr was a terrific man, he fought for the negro(black people) to live in peace together with white people. With no racial discrimination, with no race above each another. to live live together! ]]> 2019-04-30 12:37:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355393149 It all began... ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355400029 this man who would spend the next 22 years leading a movement that changed the course of the nation. He sent a letter to the Atlanta constitution , the letter was published by the newspaper and was his first step to becoming an activist. ]]> 2019-04-30 12:53:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355400029 Here is the letter ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355413857 I often find when decent treatment for the Negro is urged, a certain class of people hurry to raise the scarecrow of social mingling and intermarriage. These questions have nothing to do with the case. And most people who kick up this kind of dust know that it is simple dust to obscure the real question of rights and opportunities. It is fair to remember that almost the total of race mixture in America has come, not at Negro initiative, but by the acts of those very white men who talk loudest of race purity. We aren't eager to marry white girls, and we would like to have our own girls left alone by both white toughs and white aristocrats.

We want and are entitled to the basic rights and opportunities of American citizens: The right to earn a living at work for which we are fitted by training and ability; equal opportunities in education, health, recreation, and similar public services; the right to vote; equality before the law; some of the same courtesy and good manners that we ourselves bring to all human relations.


]]> 2019-04-30 13:19:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355413857 Martin Luther King Jr Speech ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355420507 this is a speech from the march on Washington August 28, 1963]]> 2019-04-30 13:31:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355420507 Father ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355726438 2019-05-01 09:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355726438 James Earl Ray ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355728720
Ray had been a small-time crook, a robber of gas stations and stores, who had served time in prison, once in Illinois and twice in Missouri, and received a suspended sentence in Los Angeles. He escaped from the Missouri State Penitentiary on April 23, 1967; and in Memphis, Tennessee, nearly a year later, on April 4, 1968, from a window of a neighbouring rooming house, he shot King, who was standing on the balcony of a motel room.



Ray fled to Toronto, secured a Canadian passport through a travel agency, flew to London (May 5), then to Lisbon (Suspected May 7), where he secured a second Canadian passport (May 16), and back to London (Suspected May 17). On June 8 he was apprehended by London police at Heathrow Airport as he was about to embark for Brussels; the FBI had established him as the prime suspect almost immediately after the assassination. Back in Memphis, Ray pleaded guilty, forfeiting a trial, and was sentenced to 99 years in prison. Months later, he recanted his confession, without effect.

]]> 2019-05-01 09:58:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/355728720 ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/357953284 King, Sr., was born Michael King on 19 December 1897, in Stockbridge, Georgia. The eldest son of James and Delia King, King, Sr., attended school from three to five months a year at the Stockbridge Colored School. “We had no books, no materials to write with, and no blackboard,” he wrote, “But I loved going” ]]> 2019-05-08 08:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/357953284 ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/357953933 2019-05-08 08:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/357953933 death of influence ratchfordj1 https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/357954289 Upon his death, Mohandas K. Gandhi was hailed by the London Times as “the most influential figure India has produced for generations” (“Mr. Gandhi”). Gandhi protested against racism in South Africa and colonial rule in India using nonviolent resistance. A testament to the revolutionary power of nonviolence, Gandhi’s approach directly influenced Martin Luther King, Jr., who argued that the Gandhian philosophy was “the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom”]]> 2019-05-08 08:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ratchfordj1/ldmqvxhpza2a/wish/357954289