"I Have A Dream"
January 21st - ToDay is Martin Luther King Day.
ToDay is Martin Luther King Day. This day of remembrance was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. The holiday falls on the third Monday of January.
Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929, was a primary leader of the American civil rights movement. King was a Baptist minister, one of the few leadership roles available to black men at the time. He became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the Montgomery Bus Boycott in 1955 and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference serving as its first president.
King was assassinated by James Earl Ray on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. The assassination led to a nationwide wave of riots in more than 60 cities. Ray confessed to the assassination, but he recanted three days later.
He is perhaps most remembered for the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. Here he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history. In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. King would be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.
Quote for ToDay:
"To invent,you need a good imagination and a pile of junk"-Thomas Edison (1847-1931)
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