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Dr. Randolph Meade Walker is a native of Heathsville, Virginia. He received a B.A. degree in history from Hampton University and earned the M.A. degree in History and the PhD in 1990 from the University of Memphis. He received the M. Div. in 2004 from Memphis Theological Seminary. For fifteen years he worked for the General Motors Corporation. Following that experience, he was a faculty member at LeMoyne-Owen College. Currently he is the pastor of Castalia Baptist Church in Memphis.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience is usually perceived by the general public in a restricted sense. Since King was a civil rights leader, it is only in that area that his ideas are most readily viewed.
It is the hypothesis of this lecture that King's ideas were larger than his experience. His time and space in which he used nonviolent civil disobedience were the decades of the fifties and sixties and primarily implemented in the southern United States. It was basically used in eradicating racial injustice.
Nevertheless, an examination of his speeches and writings clearly reveals that King believed nonviolent civil disobedience could be used on the international level. In fact, he believed it not only could, but indeed should be used there if the world is going to continue to exist.
Dr. Walker will examine the state of international affairs in the early twenty-first century and the practicality of nonviolence as an instrument for settling global conflicts. Hence, King's philosophy will be considered in the broader context in which he wished to see it applied.
The public is invited to attend this important lecture without admission fee.
For more information, contact Tom Mendina, 901-678-4310, tmendina@memphis.edu or Ms. Kay Kroboth at kroboth@memphis.edu.
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