Elgin Baylor

Baylor ranked #11 on SLAM Magazine's Top 75 NBA Players of all time in 2003. Beforehand, these same people also attempted several times to place King's image on the twenty dollar bill. In 1977, Baylor was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame and in 1980 he was named to the NBA 35th Anniversary All-Time Team and again in 1996, he was named to the NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team. A group of civil rights activists attempted unsuccessfully in 2000 to place his image on the half dollar. In 1986, Baylor was hired by the Los Angeles Clippers as the team's vice president of basketball operations, where he still is today. The penny will be permanently redesigned in 2010, and the current design will no longer be issued beyond 2008, but Abraham Lincoln will remain on the coin. In 1974, Baylor was hired to be an assistant coach and later the head coach for the New Orleans Jazz, but had a lackluster 86-135 record and retired following the 1978-79 season. Coin redesign advocates have asked that King's image be placed on the penny or dime.

He finished his career with an astonishing 23,149 points, 3,650 assists and 11,463 rebounds over 846 games. King would think of modern Black America. Second, the Lakers went on to win the NBA Championship that season, something that Baylor never achieved. The point of the episode was a theoretical look at what Dr. First, the Lakers' next game after his retirement was the first of an NBA record of 33 consecutive wins. The animated program depicted a fantasy world in which King was not fatally shot, but instead went into a coma, and awoke thirty-two years after his shooting to find that his ideals of non-violence are met with disdain in the post 9/11 era. His retirement resulted in two great ironies. A year later, King was the central figure in the January 15, 2006 episode of The Boondocks television series, "The Return of the King".

Baylor finally retired during the 1971-72 season because of his nagging knee problems. King was also featured in the January 20, 2005 installment of The Boondocks comic strip, in which young Michael Caesar imagines King enjoying his birthday celebration by engaging in a number of modern hip hop dances. During Baylor's career, the Lakers were a consistently powerful team, but were continuously overshadowed by the Boston Celtics dynasty of the time. King is also the basis for the comic book character Professor Charles Xavier, the leader of the X-Men. Baylor began to be hampered with knee problems during the 1963-64 season and, while still a very powerful force, was never quite the same player, never averaging above 30 points per game again. He is one of the ten 20th-century martyrs from across the world who are depicted in statues above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey, London. Baylor was a 10-time All-NBA First Team selection and went to the NBA All-Star Game 11 times. The King Memorial will be administered by the National Park Service.

In 1959, Baylor won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award and from the 1960-61 to the 1962-63 seasons, he averaged 34.8, 38.3 and 34.0 points per game, leading the Lakers to the NBA Finals eight times (although never winning). King will be the first African American honored with his own memorial in the National Mall area and the second non-President to be commemorated in such a way. Following his junior season, Baylor joined the Minneapolis Lakers for the 1958-1959 season and moving with them to Los Angeles in 1960. [18] King was a prominent member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. Elgin Baylor played college basketball at the College of Idaho and Seattle University, leading the SU Chieftains to the NCAA championship game in 1958 (where they lost to the Kentucky Wildcats). National Memorial. Elgin Gay Baylor (born September 16, 1934 in Washington, DC) was one of the most graceful and acrobatic forwards to ever play the game of basketball playing 13 seasons for the NBA's Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers. In 1998, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity was authorized by the United States Congress to establish a foundation to manage fund raising and design of a Martin Luther King, Jr.

The city government center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania is the only city hall in the United States to be named in honor of King. King County, Washington rededicated its name in honor of King in 1986. cities have officially renamed one of their streets to honor King. In addition, many U.S.

states. On January 18, 1993, for the first time, Martin Luther King Day was officially observed in all 50 U.S. It is observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday. It was observed for the first time on January 20, 1986 and is called Martin Luther King Day.

President Ronald Reagan signed a bill creating a federal holiday to honor King. At the White House Rose Garden on November 2, 1983, U.S. National Historic Site. In 1980, King's boyhood home in Atlanta and several other nearby buildings were declared as the Martin Luther King, Jr.

[17]. The King Center lists homophobia as an evil that must be opposed. [16]. Although King's widow Coretta has said publicly that she believes her husband would have supported gay rights, his daughter Bernice believes he would have been opposed to them.

For example, there is some debate even within the King family as to where he would have stood on gay rights issues. King's name and legacy have often been invoked since his death as people have begun to debate where he would have stood on various modern political issues were he alive today. Daughter Yolanda King is a motivational speaker, author and founder of Higher Ground Productions, an organization specializing in diversity training. His son, Dexter King, currently serves as the Center's president and CEO.

King established the King Center [15] in Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated to preserving his legacy and the work of championing nonviolent conflict resolution and tolerance worldwide. The same year Martin Luther King was assassinated, Mrs. King's wife, Coretta Scott King, followed her husband's footsteps and was active in matters of social justice and civil rights until her recent death. Even posthumous accusations of marital infidelity, communism, and academic plagiarism have not seriously damaged his public reputation but merely reinforced the image of a very human hero and leader.

Today he is often compared with Abraham Lincoln, with supporters remarking that both men were leaders who strongly advanced human rights against poor odds, in a nation divided against itself on the issue - and were ultimately assassinated in part for it. King's reputation has grown to become one of the most revered names in American history. While some political opponents have used these findings to criticize King, most of the scholars in question have sought to put them into broader context; for example, Keith Miller, probably the foremost expert on language-borrowing in King's oratory, has argued that the practice falls within the tradition of African-American folk preaching, and should not necessarily be labeled plagiarism. It is also a feature of many of his speeches, which borrowed heavily from those of other preachers and white radio evangelists.

(Though not widely known during his lifetime, most of his published writings during his civil rights career were ghostwritten, or at least heavily adapted from his speeches.) Concerns about his doctoral dissertation at Boston University led to a formal inquiry by university officials, which concluded that approximately a third of it had been plagiarized from a paper written by an earlier graduate student, but it was decided not to revoke his degree, as the paper still "makes an intelligent contribution to scholarship." Such uncredited "textual appropriation," as King scholar Clayborne Carson has labeled it, was apparently a habit of King's begun earlier in his academic career. Beginning in the 1980s, questions have been raised regarding the authorship of King's dissertation, other papers, and his speeches. U2 vocalist Bono admits he "screwed up" when writing the lyrics and now performs the song live with the correction. King was killed shortly after 6 PM - early evening.

King's assassination) reads "Early morning, April 4/Shot rings out in the Memphis sky", whereas Dr. However, the song contains a historical error, as the first line of the last chorus (which references Dr. King and his work. The band U2 wrote the song "Pride (In the Name of Love)" as a tribute to Dr.

You have it all or you are not free.". with the American Liberties Medallion for his "exceptional advancement of the principles of human liberty." Reverend King said in his acceptance remarks, "Freedom is one thing. Martin Luther King, Jr. Besides winning the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, in 1965 the American Jewish Committee presented the Reverend Dr.

Their presence nearby has led to speculation that the FBI was involved in the assassination. King. Immediately following the shooting, all six agents rushed out of the station and were the first people to administer first-aid to Dr. Using papered-over windows with peepholes cut into them, the agents watched over the scene until Martin Luther King was shot.

The FBI was assigned to observe King during the appearance he was planning to make on the Lorraine Motel second-floor balcony later that day, and utilized the fire station as a makeshift base. Across from the Lorraine Motel, next to the rooming house in which James Earl Ray was staying, was a vacant fire station. United States District Judge John Lewis Smith, Jr., ordered all known copies of the recorded audiotapes and written transcripts resulting from the FBI's electronic surveillance of King between 1963 and 1968, be held in the National Archives and sealed from public access until 2027. Kelley, et al.

Clarence M. and Southern Christian Leadership Conference v. Kelley, et al. Clarence M.

Lee v. On January 31, 1977, in the cases of Bernard S. Finally, the Bureau's investigation shifted away from King's personal life to intelligence and counterintelligence work on the direction of the SCLC and the Black Power movement. The Bureau also sent anonymous letters to King threatening to reveal information if he didn't cease his civil rights work.

The Bureau distributed reports regarding such affairs to the executive branch, friendly reporters, potential coalition partners and funding sources of the SCLC, and King's family. Johnson who notoriously said that King was a “hypocrite preacher”. Further remarks of King's lifestyle were made by several prominent officials, such as President Lyndon B. Accounts of such behavior also have been provided by King's associates, including close friend Ralph Abernathy who said King spent his last night on earth engaged in an adulterous liaison with several prostitutes.

FBI surveillance of King, some of it since made public, demonstrates that he also engaged in numerous extramarital sexual affairs. Later, the focus of the Bureau's investigations shifted to attempting to discredit King through revelations regarding his private life. The Committee was renamed in 1969 and eventually abolished. HUAC later was discredited for its coercion of witnesses and the manner in which it sought to implicate individuals with vague and often sweeping accusations and assumptions of guilt by association.

The attempt to smear King as a communist was in keeping with the feeling of many segregationists that blacks in the South were happy with their lot, but had been stirred up by "Communists" and "outside agitators." Movement leaders countered that voter disenfranchisement, lack of education and employment opportunities, discrimination and vigilante violence were the reasons for the strength of the Civil Rights Movement, and that blacks had the intelligence and motivation to organize on their own. For his part, King adamantly denied having any connections to Communism, stating at one point that "there are as many Communists in this freedom movement as there are Eskimos in Florida"; to which Hoover responded by calling King "the most notorious liar in the country.". Kennedy, both of whom unsuccessfully tried to persuade King to dissociate himself from Levison. Kennedy and then-President John F.

The Bureau also informed then-Attorney General Robert F. The Bureau placed wiretaps on Levison and King's home and office phones, and bugged King's rooms in hotels as he traveled across the country. The Bureau of Investigation suspected that Levison had been involved with the Communist Party, USA—to which another key King lieutenant, Hunter Pitts O'Dell, was also linked by sworn testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Its investigations were largely superficial until 1962, when it learned that one of King's most trusted advisers was New York City lawyer Stanley Levison.

The FBI began tracking King and the SCLC in 1961. Edgar Hoover, who had deeply detested the civil rights leader. King had a mutually antagonistic relationship with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), especially its director, J. [14].

He is supported by King assassination author Gerald Posner. Pepper's claims that the government killed King. King biographer David Garrow disagrees with William F. Our government was very involved in setting the stage for and I think the escape route for James Earl Ray." [13].

I will never believe that James Earl Ray had the motive, the money and the mobility to have done it himself. .. So infiltration within, saboteurs from without and the press attacks. [And] within our own organization, we found a very key person who was on the government payroll.

"The fact is there were saboteurs to disrupt the march. Jesse Jackson, who was with King at the time of his death, noted:. [12]. The investigation report recommends no further investigation unless some new reliable facts are presented.

In 2000, the Department of Justice completed the investigation about Jowers' claims, but did not find evidence to support the allegations about conspiracy. [10] [11]. William Pepper represented the King family in the trial. Dr.

The jury of six whites and six blacks found Jowers guilty and that "governmental agencies were parties" to the assassination plot. Jowers claimed to have received $100,000 to arrange King's assassination. In 1999, Coretta Scott King, King's wife (and a civil rights leader herself), along with the rest of King's family won a wrongful death civil trial against Loyd Jowers and "other unknown co-conspirators". In 1997 Martin Luther King's son Dexter King met with Ray, and publicly supported Ray's efforts to obtain a trial.

Ray and six other convicts escaped from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee on June 10, 1977 shortly after Ray testified that he did not shoot King to the House Select Committee on Assassinations, but were recaptured on June 13 and returned to prison.[9] More years were then added to his sentence for attempting to escape from the penitentiary. Atlanta police found Ray's abandoned Mustang six days after King had been shot. However, moments before the assassination, Ray had apparently suspected a setup and instead quickly left town in his Mustang, heading for Atlanta, Georgia. Meanwhile, according to Green, two men, one of them allegedly a Memphis police detective, were waiting to ambush and kill Ray while Ray was on his way to the planned diner holdup and then plant the Remington rifle in the trunk of Ray's pale yellow (not white) 1966 Ford Mustang, effectively framing a dead man.

King was shot a minute later by a sniper hidden in the shrubbery near the rooming house. Dr. on April 4th. Green (who, like Ray, had asserted that FBI assistant director Cartha DeLoach headed the assassination plot) had claimed Ray had been ordered to stay in the rooming house and as a diversion for the purported bank heist, to then hold up a small diner near the rooming house at approximately 6:00 p.m.

After several trips to and from Canada and Mexico during this time, Ray had gone to Memphis after agreeing to participate (allegedly controlled by his mysterious benefactor "Raoul" who reportedly had weeks before while in Birmingham, Alabama ordered Ray to purchase the Remington Gamemaster rifle) in what he was told was a major bank robbery while King was in town--since city police resources would be dedicated toward maintaining security for King and his entourage, the intended bank heist would be much simpler than usual. King, Ray had been targeted as the patsy for the King assassination shortly before his April 1967 prison escape and had been tracked by the Bureau during his year as a fugitive. According to a former Pemiscot County, Missouri deputy sheriff, Jim Green, who claimed to have been part of an FBI-led conspiracy to kill Dr. Lomax had been publishing a series of investigative stories on the King assassination for the North American Newspaper Alliance, stories challenging the official view of the case, and had been reportedly pressured by the FBI to halt his investigation.

According to Ray, all of this had been accomplished with the aid of the still unidentified "Raoul." Investigative reporter Louis Lomax had also discovered the Missouri Department of Corrections, shortly after Ray's April 1967 prison escape, had sent the incorrect set of fingerprints to the FBI and had failed to notice or correct this error. Also, Ray's petty criminal history had been one of colossal and repeated ineptitude, he'd been quickly and easily apprehended each time he committed an offense, behavior in sharp contrast to that of his shortly before and after the shooting; he'd easily managed to secure several different pieces of legitimate identification, using the names and personal data of living men who all coincidentally looked like and were of about the same age and physical build as Ray, he spent large sums of cash and traveled overseas without being apprehended at any border crossing, even though he had been a wanted fugitive. Moreover, witnesses surrounding King at the moment of his death say the shot came from another location, from behind thick shrubbery near the rooming house, not from the rooming house itself, shrubbery which had been suddenly and inexplicably cut away in the days following the assassination. Many suspecting a conspiracy in the assassination point out the two separate ballistic tests conducted on the Remington Gamemaster had neither conclusively proved Ray had been the killer nor that it had even been the murder weapon.

Some of the claims used to support this assertion are:. Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was supposed to have been. Some have speculated that Ray had been used as a "patsy" similar to the way that alleged John F. He spent the remainder of his life attempting (unsuccessfully) to withdraw his guilty plea and secure the trial he never had.

King," he may have been "partially responsible without knowing it," hinting at a conspiracy. Ray fired Foreman as his attorney (from then on derisively calling him "Percy Fourflusher") claiming that a man he met in Montreal, Canada with the alias "Raoul" was involved, as was his brother Johnny, but not himself, further asserting that although he didn't "personally shoot Dr. Georgia that invalidated all state death penalty laws then in force. Supreme Court's 1972 decision in the case of Furman v.