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Martin
Luther King Day
Each year on the third Monday of January, America
honours the birth, life and dream of Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr.
It is a day for all Americans to remember the injustices
that Dr. King fought.
Dr. King was an American clergyman and civil-rights
leader. In 1954, He became minister of the Dexter
Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. |
He come to prominence after leading
the boycott of segregated city bus lines in 1956;
gaining a key victory as a civil-rights leader when
Montgomery buses began to operate on a desegregated
basis.
King organized the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC), which provided a platform to
pursue further civil-rights activities, in the South
and later on, nationwide.
His philosophy of nonviolent resistance resulted
in his arrest many times during the fifties and
sixties. I was his 1963 protest in Birmingham, Alabama
that earned him worldwide attention.
He brought together over 200,000 people for the
March on Washington in August 1963, where he delivered
the iconic ?€?I Have a Dream?€? speech.
In 1964, aged 35, he become the youngest man and
only the third black man to be awarded the Nobel
Peace Prize.
His social interests widened from civil rights to
include criticism of the Vietnam War and a growing
concern about poverty. He was planning a Poor People's
March to Washington in 1968, when he interrupted
the preparations to go to support of striking sanitation
workers in Memphis, Tennessee.
On April 4, 1968, he was shot and killed as he stood
on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.
Following his assassination, Mrs. Coretta Scott
King devoted her energy and attention to developing
programs and building the Atlanta-based Martin Luther
King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change as
a living memorial to her husband's life and dream.
Mrs. Coretta Scott King died in January 2006.
The King Center is the first institution built to
commemorate an African American leader and has over
one million visitors each year. |
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