Martin Luther King Day

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day is a United States holiday marking the birthdate of the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15. It is one of three United States federal holidays to commemorate an individual person.^[1]

King was the chief spokesman of the nonviolent civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. He was assassinated in 1968.

The campaign for a federal holiday in King's honor began soon after his assassination. Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law in 1983, and it was first observed in 1986. At first, some states resisted observing the holiday as such, giving it alternative names or combining it with other holidays. It was officially observed in all 50 states for the first time in 2000.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an African American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American civil rights movement. His main legacy was to secure progress on civil rights in the United States and he is frequently referenced as a human rights icon today.

A Baptist minister,^[1] King became a civil rights activist early in his career. He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957, serving as its first president.

King's efforts led to the 1963 March on Washington, where King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech. There, he raised public consciousness of the civil rights movement and established himself as one of the greatest orators in U.S. history.

In 1964, King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and racial discrimination through civil disobedience and other non-violent means. By the time of his death in 1968, he had refocused his efforts on ending poverty and opposing the Vietnam War, both from a religious perspective.

King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee. He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 and Congressional Gold Medal in 2004; Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. national holiday in 1986.

Så vet vi det. I dag har jeg brukt tre og en halv time på å rydde og vaske, fordi vasking og rydding er det det krangles mest om her i huset. Så i dag bestemte Galen seg for å feire fridagen skikkelig, og vise Keaten og Lili hvordan man vasker huset, sånn at de ikke kan bruke det som noen unnskyldning når de blir bedt om å gjøre noe lenger. Og selv om jeg alltid gjør pliktene mine, og innimellom mer enn det, så er jeg sånn halvveis en del av "ungene", og sidene "ungene" aldri gjør nok rundt i huset, måtte jeg være med. Jeg savner de dagene hvor jeg bare vaska badet innimellom og gjorde noen halvhjertede forsøk på å rydde rommet mitt. Those days are long gone...

Jaja, jeg overlever vel. "If everybody just do half an hour every day, it won't take this long next time". Jeg kommer i alle fall til å ha superskills innen rengjøring når jeg kommer hjem. Men det har jeg faktisk merka, jeg har fått litt mer selvdisiplin siden jeg kom hit! Jeg er jo dronninga av å gjøre alt i siste liten og "ting tar tid", men det har faktisk blitt litt bedre siden jeg kom hit. Ikke bra, men bedre. Selv om sjansen for at jeg kommer til å starte på et prosjekt med en gang jeg får det, og ikke dagen før fristen går ut, er ganske liten (i alle fall i nærmeste framtid), kan det jo hende det fortsetter å bli litt bedre i alle fall?

Men nå er det lekser, finals neste uke, så da må det pugges matte og spansk. Eller surfes litt på nettet, vi får se.