Black History Month is
very important due to the fact we as a people have so many that have done so
much. We are the creator of big things such as the 3-signal traffic light,
the mailbox as we know it now was first invented and called "Street Letter
Box" and the pacemaker just to name a few. We have created items for
everyday living, extended living and post living. Yet we still are
discriminated against. We are still considered second class citizens
although we have invented first class things. Why is this?
As we are reminded daily
of the discrimination of blacks and the continued struggles we endure. We still
have a chance to glorify our accomplishments and hopefully our prior and
current success will help us to understand the question of race in today's
society.
FACT for Today:
Martin Luther King Jr.
No single African
American in history is perhaps as famous as Martin Luther King Jr., otherwise
known as MLK. There is a federal holiday on the third Monday each January
celebrated in his honor, and whole sections of textbooks are devoted to his
civil rights activism in the 1950s and 1960s. A Baptist minister in the city of
Montgomery by trade and a prominent civil rights activist, Martin Luther King
made his mark by preaching nonviolent means of protesting the segregation of
whites and blacks in the United States. MLK’s assassination at the hands of a
white man in 1968 sparked riots and mourning across the world.
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