Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is celebrated on the second Monday of January.
It commemorates the birthday of this great preacher and Civil Rights Activist.

"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed - We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men are created equal."

Barack Obama - President

Crispus Attucks - Patriot

Marion Anderson - Opera Singer

Benjamin Banneker - Mathematician

Mary McLeod Bethune - Educator

Langston Hughes - Poet

Jesse Jackson - Civil Rights Leader

"Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude."

Barbara Jordan - Politician

"America's mission was, and still is, to take diversity and
mold it into a cohesive and coherent whole that would espouse
virtues and values essential to the maintenance of civil order. There is nothing
easy about that mission, but it is not Mission Impossible."

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