Today is the day we celebrate the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Such an amazing man who stood for equality for all and changed the mindset for so many Americans. During middle school and high school you’re usually taught about MLK’s, ‘I Have a Dreams Speech’ and that’s it (atleast that’s how it was for me). It really took my own research to fully indulge in what this great man stood for. With that being said, here’s a few fun facts about MLK that you never knew.
1. Martin Luther King and Anne Frank were born in the same year.
Anne Frank was born a few months after MLK but I personally feel like most people associate them as being in different parts in history. Anne Frank died at 15 years old in 1945 and MLK in 1967 at 39, this kind of puts global oppression in perspective for me.
2. He was a gun owner.
MLK’s house after it was bombed in 1956
Bayard Rustin is one of MLK’s most trusted advisors and is credited with convincing MLK to be completely non-violent. After all of the boycotts, MLK believed in carrying and kept a personal handgun to protect himself and family. According to Rustin, “I think it’s fair to say that Dr. King’s view of non-violent tactics was almost non-existent when the boycott began. In other words, Dr. King was permitting himself and his children and his home to be protected by guns.” Dr. King actually applied for a permit and was denied.
3. He was a GREAT pool player.
Dr. King, seen here in Chicago, was a highly skilled player. So forget that cliché about the ability to play pool being the sign of a misspent youth.
4. Dr. King won a Grammy
King won a Grammy Award. How on Earth did he win a Grammy, you say? He won it in 1971 for Best Spoken Word Album for “Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam”.
5. Became a target for the FBI.
His “I Have a Dream” speech painted an even bigger target before on his back, not just with certain people in the general public, but with the FBI. This was a memo circulated throughout the FBI offices after the speech:
“In the light of King’s powerful demagogic speech yesterday he stands heads and shoulders over all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of Negros. We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro, and national security.”
6. King skipped the 9th and 11th grade entering Morehouse College at 15.
Morehouse was fertile ground for the young Martin Luther King Jr., who entered the College as an early-admission student in 1944 at the age of 15.
His intellectual approach, clarity of thoughts, and sound conclusions, presented in an oratorical style that makes him so masterful, this is the true reason why we should revere him. Watch this speech, what you will witness is divine manifestation in execution.
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My Martin Luther Flashback…
I was traveling with VP Herbert Walker Bush and he was to be interviewed by Dan Rather in Martin Luther King’s Study in Atlanta. From what I was old, it was left exactly as it was the day he was assassinated.
The SS moved in and scanned the room. Dan Rather’s group had already setup lights and their cameras. The VP settled into his chair and I setup my audio recorder. Just as things were getting ready to start I heard, “Hey guys look at this” and then WHAM! A Secret Service Agent leaped from his position at the door and just about took the guy through the window.Two agents collared him and dragged him quickly out the door.
Dr. King kept a loaded revolver on the shelf behind his desk, and it was still there, just as it was in 1968. I’m not even sure what the guy’s official capacity was being in the room, I would guess ABC, but Dumb Dumb decided to pick it up and turned towards the Vice President. When the Agents saw him turning towards the Veep with a gun, they instantly reacted.
I didn’t even realize what happened until later when the traveling agents told me. I got a photo taken by David Valdez (Corrected) I believe that was taken just as Dumb Dumb was turning towards the Veep. I’ll have to see if I can find it.
So note to self… Self, If you are ever in a room with the VP or POTUS for that matter and you see a gun, you politely bring it to the attention of the nearest Secret Service Agent WITHOUT picking it up and turning towards them!
RIP Dr. King. Thank you for your service to mankind.