MLK Day encourages service Updated: 10:07 AM EST Jan 18, 2021 By Toby Lyles and Will Mullery, CNN
MLK Day encourages service Updated: 10:07 AM EST Jan 18, 2021
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Show Transcript HOUSEHOLD. IN TONIGHT’S PROJECT COMMUNITY, A MURAL HONORING DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING, JUNIOR. THE 12-FOOT-BY-12-FOOT MURAL WENT UP ON THE SIDE OF THE KING HALL BUILDING NEAR MLK DRIVE AND KEEFE AVENUE IN MILWAUKEE. IT’S THE WORK OF ARTIST GRACE COLLINS. SHE IS A NINTH GRADER AT REAGAN HIGH SCHOOL IN MILWAUKEE. THE MARCUS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER CHOSE HER PORTRAIT OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER TO BE PART OF THEIR ANNUAL MLK BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION NEXT MONTH. AND WITH THE HELP OF TRUE SKOOL MILWAUKEE, HER PORTRAIT WAS MADE INTO A MURAL. IT WILL STAY UP FOR A YE
Martin Luther King Jr Day 2021: what he is famous for - quotes, speeches, facts
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Remembering Jews who Fought for Black Civil Rights
In the 1960s, hundreds of Jews worked tirelessly to advance civil rights. Two of them were murdered.
“I am one freedom rider who will never, ever forget the assistance of Jews.”
Hank Thomas, a major figure in the American civil rights struggle and one of the first Freedom Riders who travelled throughout the American South in the 1960s to raise awareness of the struggle for Black rights, always remembered the many Jews who helped him.
In the 2011 documentary
Freedom Riders, he recalled the key role American Jews played in calling for equal rights for Black Americans. “Let’s put it this way,” Thomas explained, “when Germany was defeated in World War II, headlines across the nation read ‘Allies defeat Germany.’ Well, we had allies, too. Half of the freedom riders were white, and of those whites, a very significant portion of them were Jews. Jews played a very significant part in our human rights struggle.”
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is celebrated on the third Monday in January, although Dr. King was actually born on the 15th of January 1929, 92 years ago.
Below are some facts and numbers related to the federal holiday, in which Americans are encouraged to participate in a day of service. The numbers tell the story.
That’s all this whole thing is about. We aren’t engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people.
From the King sermon delivered on the night of April 3, 1968, at the Bishop Charles Mason Temple in Memphis, Tennessee. Titled “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop,” it was his last speech.
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