Martin Luther King Day

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2018 marks 50 years since the death of social activist Martin Luther King. Martin Luther King Day is commemorated on 15 January this year. As a leader of the civil rights movement for negro people, King travelled over six million miles and spoke over twenty-five hundred times, appearing wherever there was injustice, protest, and action.

King was arrested more than twenty times and assaulted at least four times; he was awarded five honorary degrees and was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963. At the age of thirty-five, Martin Luther King, Jr., was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was assassinated on the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee.

You can read more about King's inspirational life, including his speech,"I have a dream" in the library catalogue.