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The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (DMI) is a non-profit American progressive think tank and community action group. The group was originally founded in 1961 in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. It later became defunct until it was relaunched in 1999. It is headquartered in New York City. DMI's stated mission is "to eradicate poverty, racism and militarism/violence, through advocacy, empowerment and education."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.drummajorinst.org/ )〕 ==History== The Drum Major Foundation (later Institute) was founded in 1961 during the American Civil Rights Movement by Harry Wachtel, a New York City lawyer who was an adviser to Martin Luther King, Jr. The organization became more or less defunct after King's death but was relaunched in 1999 by Martin Luther King III, Harry Wachtel's son William B. Wachtel and Andrew Young.〔(Drum Major Institute for Public Policy )〕 Martin Luther King, Jr. often used the phrase "drum major instinct," meaning the instinct to be a leader. In his sermon at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, on February 4, 1968 he said: "If you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice, say that I was a drum major for peace, say that I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter... I just want to leave a committed life behind."〔 (MLK Papers Project Sermons: "The Drum Major Instinct" )〕 The director of the institute from 2002 through 2004 was Fernando Ferrer, the former Borough president of the Bronx, who resigned from the Institute at the end of 2004 to run for mayor of New York City. Donations to Ferrer's mayoral campaign helped pay for DMI's operations.〔 From 2004 through 2010, Andrea Batista Schlesinger was the Institute's executive director. P.J. Kim was named the organization's executive director in 2010. Donors to DMI have included labor unions, health care companies and real estate groups.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Drum Major Institute」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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