In November 1983, President Reagan signed legislation creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, making it the third national holiday born in the twentieth century. The first was Veterans Day, created as a "prayer for peace" in 1926. Memorial Day came second
Fact Monster, published by Information Please, offers a variety of short articles on King, his holiday, the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, and the civil rights movement.
The King Center, created in 1968 by King's widow, Coretta Scott King, is dedicated to the advancement of King's non-violent ideals.
MLK Online was created in 1998 by Daniel Moss when he was just a high-school sophomore.
This Seattle Times special is my pick of the day.
On August 28, 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke these words: "I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream
"A Baptist minister and passionate fighter for civil rights through non-violent action, he (Dr.
The King Directory is a joint effort from the King Center in Atlanta and the King Papers Project at Stanford University.
Hats off to the kids of Room 100 (a mixed age K-2 classroom) at Buckman Elementary School in Portland, Oregon who illustrated this time line of Dr.
See what these high school students from North Hagerstown High School in Maryland have to say about King's dream and today's black reality.
This time line presents a brief history of the American civil rights movement, starting in 1954 with Brown v.
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