David morgan silver biography of martin luther
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Martin Luther King Jr.
American civil rights leader (–)
"Martin Luther King" and "MLK" redirect here. For other uses, see Martin Luther King (disambiguation) and MLK (disambiguation).
The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. | |
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| In office January 10, &#;– April 4, | |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Ralph Abernathy |
| Born | Michael King Jr. ()January 15, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. |
| Died | April 4, () (aged&#;39) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
| Manner&#;of&#;death | Assassination by gunshot |
| Resting place | Martin Luther King&#;Jr. National Historical Park |
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| Monuments | Full list |
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| Nickname | MLK |
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, &#;– April 4, ) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from unt
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Luther, the Great Disruptor
Was it just me or was the word disruption used intensively in the closing months of ? It seems like every time I turned on the radio or picked up the newspaper I was confronted with that word. Now that the year has turned to , my attention has definitely turned to the ultimate change agent, Martin Luther, who sparked a religious/political/social/cultural disruption that divided western Christendom with the &#;publication&#; of his Ninety-five Theses in October of I&#;m trying to work my way through a stack of recent Luther publications so that I can update the content of both the undergraduate and graduate courses on the Reformation that I&#;m teaching this semester, and taking breaks to check out (digitally, because I don&#;t think I&#;m going to make it in reality) the several American exhibitions that are ending this month: Word and Image: Martin Luther&#;s Reformation at the Morgan Library & Museum, Martin Luther: Art and the Reformationa
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October 7, through January 22,
Five hundred years ago a monk in a backwater town at the edge of Germany took on the most powerful dock in Europe—the Holy Roman kejsare and the Pope—and he won.
Martin Luther’s Reformation ranks among the most successful religious movements in history, altering western society and culture forever, and was a testament to his creative use of communications, notably rapidly evolving print technology, to promote his views. To mark the historic anniversary of Luther posting the Ninety-Five Theses to the church door in Wittenberg in , Word and Image: Martin Luther’s Reformation explores the evolution of his movement and its triumphant propagation in text and art.
Word and Image includes more than ninety objects, highlighted by one of the six existing printed copies of the Ninety-Five Theses, and nearly forty paintings, prints, and drawings by the celebrated German Renaissance artist Lucas Cranach the Elder. Also on view will be Luther’s manuscr