Former Vice Pres. Joe Biden at MLK breakfast: 'I think we're at a second inflection point in the civil rights movement in America.' 'I'm running for president because I really believe we have to restore the soul of America.'
What you need to know about the national holiday celebrating the civil rights leader.As the country observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, the civil rights icon's daughter is challenging people to continue his fight to achieve what he called"a beloved community."
The civil rights leader Martin Luther King waves to supporters at the National Mall in Washington, Aug. 28, 1963.
"He sort of took it for granted and he very seldom celebrated it," Young said."He usually took vacation time right after Christmas though his birthday, and he would go to Jamaica every year and write a book. So he worked through his birthday. But it was a time he took off from marching and did his writing and thinking."
An undated photo shows Martin Luther King, Jr., and his wife Coretta Scott King, left, speaking to reporters on the steps of the Montgomery County Court House in Montgomery City, Miss.At the age of 15, he enrolled at Morehouse College, a private historically black men's college in Atlanta, and later took up theological study at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania.
Back view of American civil rights leader and Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., dressed in black robes and holding out his hands towards the thousands of people who have gathered to hear him speak in Washington, MAy 17, 1957.In 1955, he led the first major nonviolent demonstration against segregation in the United States when an African-American woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger on a Montgomery city bus.
The violence in Birmingham prompted President John F. Kennedy to say,"The events in Birmingham... have so increased the cries for equality that no city or state or legislative body can prudently choose to ignore them.""We didn't know whether anybody was going to come," Young noted.
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