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Feature of the Month: January / February 2008

African-American History Month

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. / AFRICAN-AMERICAN HISTORY MONTH

"On the Martin Luther King, Jr., Federal Holiday, Americans honor the memory of a man who stirred the conscience of a Nation. We also recommit ourselves to the dream to which Dr. King devoted his life an America where the dignity of every person is respected; where people are judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character; and where the hope of a better tomorrow is in every neighborhood."
President George W. Bush

Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, August 28, 1963. (© AP/WWP) Constitution Avenue filled with civil rights demonstrators walking from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. (© AP Images)
Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, August 28, 1963. (© AP/WWP)
Constitution Avenue filled with civil rights demonstrators walking from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial for the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. (© AP Images)

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Thurgood Marshall, center, chief legal counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, surrounded by students, on steps of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, August 22, 1958 (© AP Images) Black and white fourth graders at St. Martin School, Washington, D.C. dash for the playground at recess, September 17, 1954. The District of Columbia and four states acted to end segregation in the schools following the 1953 Supreme Court's desegregation ruling (© AP Images)
Thurgood Marshall, center, chief legal counsel of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, surrounded by students, on steps of the Supreme Court Building in Washington, August 22, 1958 (© AP Images)
Black and white fourth graders at St. Martin School, Washington, D.C. dash for the playground at recess, September 17, 1954. The District of Columbia and four states acted to end segregation in the schools following the 1953 Supreme Court's desegregation ruling (© AP Images)
Brunetta Vinson views an exhibit on Martin Luther King Jr.
Brunetta Vinson views an exhibit on Martin Luther King Jr. at
the Museum of African American History in Detroit (© AP Images)

 

 

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