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New Pittsburgh Courier from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania • Page 5

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0h NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Dr. Martin Luther King international symbol of the civil rights movement, was paid one of the world's highest honors when he was named recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. As president of the Southern Christian Leadership Confer nee, he has become the foremost modern exponent of non violence. OFTEN JAILED While others talked, Dr. King often went into the front line of battle to demonstrate his feelings about the Negro's struggle.

As a result, he fas been jailed some 15 times. In I960, when he was ailed in Atlanta, for not having a driver's license, a dramatic phone call from the then Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy helped bring about his release. AS AN AUTHOR In spite of his heavy schedule, Dr. King has found time to write several books explaining the philosophy of non violence as it applies to the Negro struggle in this country.

Here he is shown being Stert rf 7o ff U'r 4 rw C.i MONTGOMERY VICTORY The 381 day boycott against segregated buses in Montgomery, was the incident which propelled Dr. Martin Luther King to fame, when he assumed the responsibility of being its leader. As a result, the U.S. Supreme Court eventually outlawed jim crow buses. STABBED Since 1955, Dr.

King has been the target of a bomb, bullets and crank telephone calls from those who disagree, often violently, with his stand. He is shown, here, with Dr. Emil Naclerio of the surgical team that successfully operated on him in 1959, after he was stabbed with a letter opener, in a Harlem department store HE HAD A DREAM One of the most dramatic news stories of 1963 was the "March on Washington," on Aug. 28, which drew more than 250,000 civil rights sympathizers to the nation's capital where they gathered before Lincoln Memorial and heard Dr. King deliver his unforgettable "I Have a Uream speech.

Many openly wept as he described an America free of racial prejudice and strife. i ft If if congratulated by New York's Mayor Robert F. Wagner and former Manhattan Borough President Hulan Jack, on publication of his book "Stride Toward Freedom." NA KVk 1 Aril A ft 1 1 i 5 fix If 3 i 7lr 3 Si .1. I Ki.M 7 7 a 1 i 5' I 1 I 4 I 1 i ii uniiMi iiiMiiwMBissssMiSMMsMslMriirfifrriAi'iWJfirI ifti i i 'i Oet. 24, 1944 7 i y.

"3 THE COURIER DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Man of the Hour a V1 7 A JVi: 4't v. ol iff I nrf lli mi SPINGARN WINNER Among the many high honors which have come to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

is Spingarn Medal of the NAACP. Here, the Rt. Rev. Richard S. Emrich, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Michigan, is shown as he presents the medal to Dr.

King, for his "inspired leadership" of the Montgomery, bus protest movement of 1955 1956. 7 71 7 i i 7 I i A iv." It 1 I. 11 7 7, 71 I t'it v'7 .7 7:7 I i I 1 I "v77it'V; '7' vs 7 Ivll 1 A It) 4 A i 'c 'i'tjt WITH LOVED ONES A source of strength and encouragement to the noted civil rights leader has ben his wife, the former Coretta Scott. He is shown being reunited with her and two of their children, after on of his many trips to jail. Besides Martin III and Yolanda, shown here, the Kings have two younger children, a son, Dexter, and an 18 month old daughter, Bernice Albertine.

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