Remembering MLKJ

Well today is Martin Luther King Jr day..!
And all I have is this picture of me and Rosa Parks at the wax museum (at least we can sit anywhere on the bus now...my fav spot on the bus used to be the very last seat:)thanks Rosa!...i can't find the one of me and MLKJ...I wonder if someone else has it on their camera.hmmmm
Lets try to remember the reason that we have this day off (well i didn't get off today but most of the population did).


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.



DID YOU KNOW???
Before he was the great orator of his time, Martin Luther King Jr. was a athlete and a trash talker. He loved baseball. He ran track and played basketball. And though he was small, he was on his high school football team and had a reputation as a talking trash to opponents during competition.
(I found that interesting considering I'm a big softball/baseball lover)