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Why isn’t Martin Luther King Day celebrated on his Birthday on January 15? Date and celebration significance explored
Martin Luther King Day is the celebration of the civil rights activist's birthday that falls in January. However, the federal ...
It took more than a dream to establish Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
In 1983, about 20 years after King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, legislation for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day cleared Congress, and President Ronald Reagan signed it.
Editorial: Martin Luther King on gratitude for living in the present moment
On the evening of April 3, 1968, the day before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to Memphis sanitation ...
Tennessee Lookout11m
Memphis man recounts teenage days aiding worker’s strike during King’s last visit to the city
As an 18-year old, Joe Calhoun of Memphis lived in Clayborn Temple as he aided Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the Sanitation ...
Richland Source35m
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Mansfield twice
Dr. King visited Mansfield twice during the 1960s. Both times, he addressed standing-room-only crowds at Mount Hermon Baptist ...
Kentucky Lantern18m
In King’s last days, Memphis teen aided sanitation workers’ strike, launching lifetime of activism
Joe Calhoun became an activist during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike, helping the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and ...