We here at SouthernPlug.net want to HONOR as well as show our appreciation to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
for his dream, his integrity & his bravery to stand on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington to FIGHT for Jobs and Freedom. We #Salute you Dr. King!!!
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
"A Day On Not A Day Off"
- King Day of Service The national Martin Luther King Day of Service was started by former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Harris Wofford and Atlanta Congressman John Lewis, who co-authored the King Holiday and Service Act. The federal legislation challenges Americans to transform the King Holiday into a day of citizen action volunteer service in honor of Dr. King. The federal legislation was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 23, 1994. Since 1996, the annual Greater Philadelphia King Day of Service has been the largest event in the nation honoring Dr. King.
Several other universities and organizations around the U.S., such as Arizona State University, Greater DC Cares and City Year, participate in the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service. In honor of MLK, volunteers across the country donate their time to make a difference on this day
“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.”
| Birth | January 15, 1929. Atlanta, Georgia, USA |
| Death | April 4, 1968. Memphis, Tennessee, USA (assassination by gunshot) |
| Known for | Leading the civil rights movement in the United States |
| Advocating nonviolent protest against segregation and racial discrimination | |
| Milestones | 1954 Selected as pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama |
| 1955 Received his Ph.D. in systematic theology from Boston University | |
| 1955-1956 Led a successful effort to desegregate Montgomery, Alabama, buses | |
| 1957 Helped found and served as the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) | |
| 1958 Published Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story | |
| 1963 Wrote 'Letter from Birmingham Jail,' arguing that it was his moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws | |
| 1963 Delivered his 'I Have a Dream' speech to civil rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. | |
| 1964 Won the Nobel Peace Prize | |
| 1965 Organized a mass march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, that created national support for federal voting-rights legislation | |
| 1968 Was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee |
Delivered to over 200,000 civil rights supporters, the speech was ranked the topAmerican speech of the 20th century by a 1999 poll of scholars of public address. According to U.S. Representative John Lewis, who also spoke that day as the President of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, "Dr. King had the power, the ability, and the capacity to transform those steps on the Lincoln Memorial into a monumental area that will forever be recognized. By speaking the way he did, he educated, he inspired, he informed not just the people there, but people throughout America and unborn generations."
"Free at last, free at last. Thank God Almighty, we are free at last" -Dr Martin Luther King
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