Period Martin Luther King tin plate

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This 8-1/4" color printed tin plate and titled "I Have a Dream - Freedom for All My People". A youthful King image centers the plate. Shows some wear, produced by Fabcraft, Frenchtown, NJ.All the text uses the present tense. Thus, this not a commemorative plate, but issued during King's life. On the reverse is considerable text, "Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the youngest to ever win The Nobel Peace Prize for his great contribution toward the ultimate passage and signing of the civil rights act of 1964. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., is perhaps the greatest single force behind the drive for equal rights for the American Negro and while he did not begin the negro revolution he has carried it forward with a powerful new weapon - Non-Violent Protest, patterned after Gandhi's philosophy of peaceful passive resistance. The award of the 1964 Nobel peace prize is high honor indeed an honor all American negroes and American white can be proud of particularly since his selection was from among thirty nominees including former president Dwight D. Eisenhower, French president Charles deGaulle, Sir Anthony Eden, and former Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. Born Jan 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Ga., Dr. King began his crusade in 1955 at the age of 26 with a sermon from the pulpit of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Ala., which led to the 381-day boycott of the Montgomery buses until finally the courts ruled the buses must be desegregated. He has had bombs thrown at his home; he has been jailed 5 times in Alabama; again in Georgia, but he has pressed forward relentlessly and the final passage and signing of the Civil Rights Act on July 2, 1964 was an achievement due in large measure to his unswerving determination not to be satisfied (in his own words) until segregation is dead in America."

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