Martin Luther King Jr.

[Diddy2Fresh]

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968), was one of the main leaders 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 (1955 - 1956) and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (1957), serving as its first president. His efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King 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 was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter in 1977. Martin Luther King Day was established as a national holiday in the United States in 1986. In 2004, King was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal.
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[KaitouSai100]

Haha, I had to do an oral report on MLK for a group project (the topic was civil rights movement). He's pretty awesome.

[Night-]

I was going to do a paper on him but a girl picked b4 i did so i went with Rose Park =O

[Mattus]

Okay, someone explain this to me....
On my calender.
January 15th, says it's his birthday....
but it also says today is....

[A-Bomb]

lol your calender is messed up

[Ryandaman]

Okay, someone explain this to me....
On my calender.
January 15th, says it's his birthday....
but it also says today is....

His real birthday is on the January 15, but the holiday is observed on the third monday of January of each year...I don't know why some people call it Martin Luther King's birthday, they should just call it Martin Luther King Day...

[Mattus]

That's what they call it here, and thanks.

[PriscillaXOXOXOX]

My school didn't even mention Martin Luther, everyone just called it a National Holiday.

[Ido]

lol, fun thing about it is a 3 day weekend, <_<

My teacher mention the wrong name, he said: "ok people, at monday we don't have school because it's george washington day"

But we call it Martin Luther Kings B-Day. so i don't refer to it as MLK Day. ^_^


I did a paper about MLK, like for a project pr whatever.

[MissySmithy]

Hey in my school they never let us have a MLKJ holiday!
The only reason we didn't have school today was because we had just finished finals.
Otherwise we would've gone to school like any other day.
That's not fair that the district doesn't let us take this holiday like the rest of the nation.

[JackpottJinchuuriki]

^^that definitely sucks
this is a national holiday, i dunno why they wouldn't let u guys take off.

[MissySmithy]

^^ I know.
We miss out for a lot other holidays too. Like president's day and Christopher Columbus day.

[Diddy2Fresh]

haha, funnyyyy

[Mattus]

I can take a wild guess.

[PriscillaXOXOXOX]

well we don't take culombus day off either, cause all our teachers said he was a bad man.

[Mattus]

Your teachers say MLK was a bad man too?

[PriscillaXOXOXOX]

I like the sarcasme, no, they dont.

[Diddy2Fresh]

haha