January 19, 2015 is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
January 19, 2015
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (MLK) is a federal holiday in the United States and recognized in other countries, including the City of Toronto. The day is observed on the third Monday of every January, which marks the time of King's birthday on January 15. He was born in 1929.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the leader of the American civil rights movement at a most precarious time, and during the most shameful time of open discrimination and terrible displays of racism against African Americans, both young and old, women and men and innocent children, worked diligently to end the oppression against Black Americans and others who faced discrimination and racism. Dr. King also supported and campaigned for workers’ rights for all people, regardless of colour, and the trade union movement.
Dr. King's most famous speech, the "I Have a Dream Speech", was delivered on August 28, 1963 on the the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. during the March on Washington, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. In front of more than 250,000 civil rights supporters, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., as the leader of the American civil rights movement at a most precarious time, and during the most shameful time of open discrimination and terrible displays of racism against African Americans, both young and old, women and men and innocent children, worked diligently to end the oppression against Black Americans and others who faced discrimination and racism. Dr. King also supported and campaigned for workers’ rights for all people, regardless of colour, and the trade union movement.
Dr. King's most famous speech, the "I Have a Dream Speech", was delivered on August 28, 1963 on the the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. during the March on Washington, in which he calls for an end to racism in the United States. In front of more than 250,000 civil rights supporters, the speech was a defining moment of the American Civil Rights Movement.
