Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on a U.S. Coin (facebook Group)

Please assist us in helping to get Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on a U.S. Coin. We have started a Facebook Group called "In support of MLK on U.S. Coin." Please join the group, and spread the link to your friends. If it ever gets over 1,000 members than we will try to move forward with a petition.

Here is a direct link.

http://www.facebook.com/groups/317740278278315/

Thank You Kindly.

 

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Why?

Did he do anything that warrants a coin in his likeness?

As far as promoting civil rights activist, Medgar Evers, President Johnson, Rosa Parks, Oliver Brown, James Meredith and those known as the "Little Rock Nine" that President Eisenhower used military personel to escort them to High School come to mind and probably did more to advance 'fairness' in this country then Dr. King ever thought of.

Let us not rewrite history and give credit where it is due.

I know that I will probably be slammed for not being "politically correct", but it is what it is. Dr. King was one man and others did more, who are more deserving of being protrait on a US coin.

 

Dr. King is by far the best known out of all of the civil rights activists. He wasn't only just "one man" in the civil rights act, he was the leader that allowed us to look past our differences. The rest of the important civil rights activists were vital to equality and ending injustice towards African Americans, but Dr. king was the one who truly ended it.

 

Maybe others did more than him because he was, umm i dont know..........assassinated?

 

So was Medgar Evers assassinated.

 

Love the way you try to rewrite history.:devil:

Evers would have done more if he wasn't shot in 1963. What did Dr. King end? When? Like I wrote, other did more.

 

I like the way you rewrite history.

Evers would have done more if he wasn't assassinated in 1963.

What did Dr. King end? When? If Dr. King ended anything, then why was it necessary for President Johnson to reach acoss to the Republicans to get his 'Civil Rights Act of 1968' passed.

Like I wrote earlier, others did more and are more deserving of being placed on a US Coin.

 

There is already a bill that passed that will commemorate the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which might (ya never know) have MLK on it in 2014. I think the Civil Rights movement had a lot of important figures that all deserve to be on a coin, but likely a coin that commemorates the movement as a whole is better than picking just one figure from it.

 

That was my point exactly! To say that one was more deserving to be placed on a US coin then others is just foolish. I explained this last night in a response that was censored. I guess some people can not handle the truth.

Nobody is arguing, the OP asked for support on an issue and I asked why. Maybe my question is not "politically correct' but it is still a valid question.

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So far all reasoning from both sides is opinionated. If you guys can bring forth factual, legit reasons that are backed up by research, i think that it would be up for a good arguement for the coin.

 

sounds like good idea

 

My opinion of MLK is a low one and I feel he is not only undeserving to be on a coin but the national holiday for him should be repealed.
For more information, try this link: http://www.therightperspective.org/2011/01/11/the-dark-side-of-martin-luther-king-jr/

 

I personally don't think MLK should have his face put on a circulating coin...but my reason for that is there is simply no coin to put him on. I wouldn't remove any of the current people on our coins and replace them. However, I do believe he is more than deserving of his own commemorative coin. Not a coin commemorating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 or any other government decision...but a coin commemorating his life and the good that came out of it.

Say what you will about MLK the man...because he was far from perfect. But nobody his perfect. That said, he was the face of the non-violent civil rights movement. Did others physically do more? Probably. But nobody inspired more people. Sometimes being the person that motivates others to go out and do good is more important than he good that individual did. The reason is, more got done because of his words than what he could have done alone. I personally think he is more deserving of a commemorative coin than many of those who have already been put on commemorative coins.

 

I personally won't support this. As much as MLK has been seen as some sort of force behind civil rights, and the civil rights movement has led to more equality, I think that we need to get away not only from Dead Presidents on coins (our American version, so to speak, of political royalty) and go back to American Ideals. So my question is why replace one of the dead presidents with MLK or any other person we have to 'honor'. The next thing you know, we'll be trading off the obverse portraits of quarters with different people, like a flavor of the month thing. Start off with MLK, then go to Pres. Johnson, then Rosa Parks, Medgar Evans, the Birmingham four or whatever number there was, and spice it up with a Kresge's counter and white's only fountain or even Cesar Chavez (now maybe I could get behind that. He did a lot for a lot of people. But then I think, there's lots of people who could be equally honored). Geez....this is coinage for a country that is supposedly wanting not to mix up our Presidents as royalty, yet we are now constantly having mostly presidents on the coins, and the only difference is they are not alive. My point is let's back a proposition where it can't just be flavor of the month, honoring the person of the moment (historically speaking) and go to a more idealistic obverse with a reverse that is classic, like the wreath with the amount on it.

 

wow, that is very interesting.