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Note: Click the sound links below only if you have a fast internet connection. Martin Luther King and German: To hear the massed choirs at the 2004 King Day concert in Washington, DC, singing the 4th movement of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony as the church hymn, "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee," click on this link (streaming .mov, 5.6MB) To hear an English-language report from NPR about what life was like growing up in Germany as a black woman, the daughter of an American GI and a German woman, click on this link (streaming .mov, 8.1MB) It may be odd to think that MLK's parents would choose to name him for the 16th-Century church reformer and co-founder of Protestantism. Or maybe not - Luther was the greatest protester of his day, though not as strongly non-violent as King. For on-line encyclopedia "Wikipedia" about Martin Luther (available also in German from the page), To view the homepage of Wittenberg (south of Berlin), where Luther started the Protestant Reformation in Germany, It's an important skill to find out how to talk about our own world in German. Better than a dictionary is a website like MagazinUSA (home page). To read in German about the Martin Luther King, Jr., Center in Atlanta, GA, |