(AFR 125 - 09.03.26) What Is Your Life's Blueprint Lecture Flashcards

Flashcards covering Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s speech at Barret Junior High School on 'Life's Blueprint' and the subsequent classroom discussion.

Barret Junior High School

The school in Philadelphia where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his speech encouraging students to create a sound life's blueprint.

Life's Blueprint

A pattern, guide, or model used to erect the structure of one's life, constructed through key personal decisions and foundational principles.

First Principle of a Life's Blueprint

A deep belief in your own dignity, your own worth, and your own somebody-ness, which includes taking pride in your color and biological features.

Second Principle of a Life's Blueprint

The determination to achieve excellence in your various fields of endeavor and being prepared to step through doors of opportunity as they open.

Third Principle of a Life's Blueprint

A commitment to the eternal principles of beauty, love, and justice.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The essayist cited by Dr. King who stated in an 1871 lecture that the world will make a beaten path to the door of anyone who writes a better book, preaches a better sermon, or makes a better mousetrap.

University of Integration

The symbolic institution for which Dr. King states you flunk your matriculation exam if you set out only to do a good 'Negro job' rather than a job anyone could do well.

Booker T. Washington

A leader who rose from an old slave cabin in Virginia's hills to become a great American leader and lit a torch in Alabama.

Marian Anderson

A world-renowned singer from a poverty-stricken area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, of whom Toscanini said a voice like hers comes only once in a century.

Roland Hayes

A world-class singer born in Gordon County, Georgia, to an illiterate mother, who sang in the palaces and mansions of kings and queens.

George Washington Carver

A figure who emerged from crippling circumstances to carve an imperishable niche in the annals of science.

Ralph Bucks

The grandson of a slave preacher described by Dr. King as a star in the diplomatic sky.

Build, Baby, Build

The constructive slogan advocated by Dr. King as a replacement for 'burn, baby, burn' in the struggle for freedom and justice.

Mother to Son

A poem written by a magnificent black poet, quoted by Dr. King, featuring the line 'life for me ain't been no crystal stair.'

Ilyasah Shabazz

The daughter of Malcolm X, noted in the classroom discussion as visiting John Jay College.

BOE

The verification turn-in to the registrar that confirms whether a student has been present and doing work in class.

African Free School Collection

An exhibit mentioned in a student presentation regarding a school opened in 1787 to educate black children, attended by Jim McConnell. Smith who later became a doctor.