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Monday, January 16th is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. It is a day that not only commemorates the man, but his message. |
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929. After completing seminary and earning his doctorate, he became the pastor of Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Dr. King is one of the most recognizable figures of the Civil Rights Movement. He played a major role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955, which resulted in a U.S. District Court ruling which ended racial segregation on Montgomery city buses. He then went on to found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, along with other key Civil Rights activists in 1957. In 1963, Dr. King led the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech. The impact of the March and specifically of Dr. King's speech was indelible, leading to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin and effectively ending segregation in schools and public buildings.
Read more about Dr.King here. |
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Park Sites |
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Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site, where his birth home is preserved
The King Center-founded by Dr. King's wife, Coretta Scott King, after his assassination
Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial, located on the National Mall in Washington, DC.
Selma to Montgomery National Historic Trail, which commemorates the events and people of the 1965 Voting Rights March in Alabama
Brown vs. Board of Education National Historic Site explores the case that ended legal segregation in public schools
Little Rock Central High School National Historic Sitewhere nine African-American teenagers entered the newly integrated school for the first time, testing the decision of the case of Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka |
