| This year is the 26th Anniversary of this Holiday!
Happy Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Minister and advocate of non-violence! Best known for his Civil Rights Activism, using Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi's teachings on civil disobedience as the foundation stone for his legendary movement; Nobel Peace Prize Winner; March On Washington; 'I Have A Dream' speech.
1929: January 15, Michael Luther King Jr. (later known as Martin Luther King Jr.) was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His parents were Baptist minister Michael Luther King and Schoolteacher Alberta King. Mr. King had an older sister named Willie Christine, and a younger brother, Alfred Daniel.
 1932: In January, King began nursery school.
1942: In September, Martin attends the Yonge Street Elementary School. His education continued over the next few years at the David T. Howard Elementary School and the Atlanta University Laboratory School.
1944: In September, Martin Luther King attends Morehouse College in Atlanta.
1946: On June 3, 1946, the U.S. Supreme Court had banned segregation in interstate bus travel...and on August 10, the Race riots occur in Athens, Alabama...and then again on September 29, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. On December 5, The National Committee on Civil Rights is created by President Harry Truman to investigate racism in America.
1947: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a new minister, delivered his first prepared sermon in his father's church, Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, at age 18 in the Summer of 1947. On April 9, the "Freedom Riders" tested the laws of interstate bus travel in the segregated South. On April 15, Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Committee on Civil Rights under President Truman condemn racial injustices towards Blacks in America in a report dated October 29, 1947, entitled "To Secure These Rights."
 1948: On February 25, Martin Luther King is appointed to serve as the assistant pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta. On June 8, King graduates from Morehouse College in Atlanta with a B.A. in Sociology at the age of 19. On September 14, He begins attending Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania.
1951: During the month of May, he graduates from Crozer with a Bachelor of Divinity degree at the age of 22. September, he begins studying systematic theology as a graduate student at Boston University.
1953: On June 18, Martin marries Coretta Scott at her parent’s home in Marion, Alabama. Coretta was the younger daughter of Obadiah and Bernice McMurray Scott. On June 19, the first bus boycott starts in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
1954: On May 17, U.S Supreme Court rules that racial segregation in the public schools of America was unconstitutional. On September 1, Martin Luther King is appointed pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama.
1955: On May 31, U.S. Supreme Court orders desegregation of the public schools "with all deliberate speed." On June 5, King earns his Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston University. On August 28, Emmett Till, age 14, was tortured and lynched in Money, Mississippi, for being accused of whistling at a white woman. On November 17, Yoland Denise, King’s first child, is born at Montgomery, Alabama. On November 25, the Interstate Commerce Commission banned segregation in buses and all waiting rooms involved in interstate travel. On December 1, Rosa Parks, a 42 year old seamstress, is arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for refusing to give her seat on the bus to a white male passenger. On December 5, Martin Luther King becomes the president of the Montgomery Improvement Association which was organised due to the protest against the incident involving Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.
1956: On January 30, Dr. Martin Luther King’s house is bombed, but there are no injuries. On December 21, the Montgomery buses are desegregated, and black passengers could legally take any seat on the city's buses.
1957: During the month of January, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is formed to formulate a strategy for ending segregation, and Martin Luther King is elected president. On January 27, an unexploded bomb was discovered on the family's front porch. On February 18, Martin Luther King is featured on the cover of Time magazine. On March 6, he visits Ghana in West Africa. On May 17, at the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom at the Lincoln Memorial, King’s delivers his first national address entitled, “Give Us The Ballot.” On September 9, Congress of the United States passes the Civil Rights Act of 1957. On September 24/25, President Eisenhower sent in federal troops to enforce integration of schools in Little Rock. Nine black students were escorted into the school by court order. On October 23, King’s second child, Martin Luther King III is born at Montgomery, Alabama.
1958: On June 23, Dr. King meets with President Eisenhower. On September 17, King’s book, Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story is published. On September 20, Dr. King is stabbed by a woman while at a book signing in a department store in Harlem, New York.
1959: February 2 - March 10, Martin Luther King and Coretta visits India as guests of Prime Minister Nehru. King’s book, The Measure of a Man is published.
1960: During the month of February, King and his family moves to Atlanta, where he serves as assistant pastor to his father at Ebenezer Baptist Church. On May 6, President Eisenhower signs the Civil Rights Act of 1960 into law. On October 19, Dr. King is arrested for breaking the state of Georgia's trespassing law while picketing in Atlanta.
1961: On January 31, the Kings' third child, Dexter Scott is born in Atlanta, Georgia. On May 4, an integrated group of 'Freedom Riders' left Washington, DC on Greyhound buses, and, upon arrival near Anniston, Alabama, the bus was burned, and the riders were beaten. On October 16, Martin Luther King meets with President Kennedy to gain his support for the civil rights movement. On December 16, Dr. King and other protesters are arrested in Albany, Georgia.
1962: On September 30, riots break out on the campus at the University of Mississippi.
1963: On March 28, Dr. King’s fourth child, Bernice Albertine is born in Atlanta, Georgia. On April 3, Birmingham, Alabama police chief, Eugene "Bull" Connor, becomes a symbol of racism when he broadcasts his methods of using dogs and fire hoses to stop peaceful demonstrators of the Black protest movement. On April 12, Dr.King is arrested at a Sit-in demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama protesting against public eating facilities. On April 16, Whilst in his Birmingham cell Dr. King writes about his concerns on the pace of justice in civil rights for Black Americans in his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." On June 11, governor George Wallace stands in the door of the University of Alabama, refusing the entrance of Black students. On June 12, Civil Rights Leader Medgar Evers was assassinated in front of his home in Jackson, Mississippi. On August 28, Martin Luther King meets with President John F. Kennedy and after their meeting Dr. King delivers his famous "I Have a Dream" speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd estimated at 250,000 at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. September 1, Dr. King publishes his second book, The Strength to Love. On September 15, four little girls are killed when a bomb explodes inside the church, where the children are seated. Later Dr. King delivers a eulogy for three of the girls. On September 18, the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama is attacked. On November 22, president John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
1964: On January 3, Time Magazine honours Dr. King as "Man of the Year." On January 18, Dr. King meets with President Lyndon B. Johnson. On March 26, Dr. King meets Malcolm X. On June 4, King’s third book, Why We Can’t Wait is published. On June 11, Martin Luther King is arrested in St. Augustine, Florida for attempting to eat in a white-only restaurant. On July 2, Dr. King invited to the White House while President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Public Accommodation and Fair Employment sections to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. On August 4, three civil rights workers were killed on a trip through Philadelphia, Mississippi. Their names were James Chaney, who was black and Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner who were both white. On December 10, Martin Luther King becomes the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway for his efforts to end segregation and racial discrimination through non-violent means.
1965: On February 21, Malcolm X is assassinated in New York City. On March 7, the Edmund Pettus Bridge incident took place in Selma, Alabama, where marchers were beaten and tear-gassed. March 17 – 25, King and 25,000 other protestors march from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. On March 25, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo was killed driving some of the black marchers back to Selma. On August 6, The 1965 Voting Rights Act was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. August 11/12, the Watts Riots erupted in California when thirty-five people died. The National Guard had been called in to stop America's worst single racial disturbance.
1966: On January 13, Robert C. Weaver becomes the first Black to serve in the cabinet as Secretary of Housing and Urban Affairs. On May 16, Dr. King speaks out against the government's policy in Vietnam. On June 6, James Meredith was shot and wounded on the "March Against Fear" from Memphis, Tennessee to Jackson Mississippi. On June 7, after the shooting Dr. King, Floyd McKissick, and Stokely Carmichael resume the “March Against Fear” from Memphis to Jackson, Mississippi. On June 27, SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael publicly uses the militant term, "Black Power" in Greenwood, Mississippi. July 18-23: The National Guard are called in when Summer Riots break out in Chicago, Illinois, Cleveland, Omaha, Nebraska and Ohio. On August 6, Dr. King marches on the issue for open housing in Chicago and is stoned by angry onlookers.
1967: During the month of January, Dr. King’s fourth book, Where Do We Go from Here? Chaos or Community is published. On June 23, Thurgood Marshall is the first Black on the U.S. Supreme Court. May 1 - October 1, had the Summer riots where 43 people are killed. Dr. Martin Luther King makes many appeals to stop the riots.
1968: On March 28, King leads striking sanitation workers in a march in Memphis, Tennessee. The march erupts in violence. On April 3, Dr. King delivers his last speech at a rally at Mason Temple (the national headquarters of the Church of God in Christ), Memphis. The famous and inspiring “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop speech...” On April 4, while standing on the balcony of his room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is shot and killed. On April 5, President Lyndon B. Johnson decrees that Sunday, April 7, 1968 to be a day of national mourning in honor of Dr. King. On April 7, his body is viewed by mourners on the campus of Spelman College in Atlanta. On April 9, King's funeral was held at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, where more than 300,000 people marched through Atlanta with his mule-drawn coffin. He is buried in South View Cemetery, Atlanta. On June 8, James Earl Ray was arrested at a London airport for the murder of Dr. Martin Luther King. On May 10, James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
1977: King was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.
1986: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a national holiday in the United States!
1998: On April 23, James Earl Ray, the convicted killer of King died in prison of liver failure.
2004: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr was posthumously awarded a Congressional Gold Medal!
2011: KING'S LEGACY STILL LIVES ON TODAY. . .BUT, MANY PEOPLE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO AND LEARN, WHEN IT COMES TO DEALING WITH RACISM IN THE U.S.A.
FOCUS ON WHAT EACH INDIVIDUAL CAN DO, WHAT THEIR TALENTS ARE, AND HOW THEY CAN IMPROVE THEIR COMMUNITY BY USING THESE TALENTS, AND TO HELP OTHERS AS WELL. . .THINKING LIKE THIS IS EASY TO DO, BUT MANY OF YOU ARE SO RASCIST, THAT YOUR HATEFUL THOUGHTS TAKE UP A LOT OF ENERGY, AND ALWAYS BLIND YOU FROM SEEING THE GOODNESS IN OTHERS!
AMERICA WOULD BE A BETTER, RICHER PLACE IF PEOPLE STOPPED LOOKING AT SKIN COLOUR, NATIONALITY, AND RELIGION.
JonellaB  © 2012 |
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Enjoy the holiday with your love ones. Cheers! 
HAPPY HOLIDAYS! 
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