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On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:51:27 +0000, John Hastings
<jastings@invalid.net> wrote:

>On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 18:57:46 +0000, Deeandre' Babydaddy
><white_tax_dollars@cant_fix.me> wrote:
>
>> What exactly did Martin Luther King Jr. do that warrant a national holiday?

In the eleven-year period between 1957 and 1968, King traveled over
six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing
wherever there was injustice, protest, and action; and meanwhile he
wrote five books as well as numerous articles. In these years, he led
a massive protest in Birmingham, Alabama, that caught the attention of
the entire world, providing what he called a coalition of conscience.
and inspiring his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", a manifesto of the
Negro revolution; he planned the drives in Alabama for the
registration of Negroes as voters; he directed the peaceful march on
Washington, D.C., of 250,000 people to whom he delivered his address,
"l Have a Dream", he conferred with President John F. Kennedy and
campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was arrested upwards of
twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five
honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963;
and became not only the symbolic leader of American blacks but also a
world figure.

At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest
man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his
selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of
$54,123 to the furtherance of the civil rights movement.

On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his
motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march
in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was
assassinated.

King was instrumental in showing the white people of this country
exactly what the black man had to deal with in his every day life in
terms of discrimination.  He received the Presidential Medal of Honor,
one of the two highest civilian awards in the United States.  His *I
Have a Dream* speech was on a par with Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
There was NO rioting that day.  The March was peaceful and people of
all races were involved in it.
 


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Dorothy

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that can be heard unless someone listens ..

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