{"id":11177,"date":"2013-01-18T13:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-18T19:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=11177"},"modified":"2013-01-18T13:17:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-18T19:17:59","slug":"mlk-commemorative-event-jan-23","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/11177","title":{"rendered":"MLK commemorative event Jan. 23"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rodney Slater will deliver the keynote address at UWW’s 27th annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Commemorative Event.<\/strong> Please join the campus community at this event on Wed., Jan. 23, at 3:30pm in the UC’s Hamilton Center<\/strong>. Mr. Slater, partner at Patton Boggs LLC<\/a>, was previously U.S. Secretary of Transportation (under President Bill Clinton) and the first African American director of the Federal Highway Administration.<\/p>\n

Martin Luther King, Jr., would have turned 84 years old on January 15, 2013. The Multimedia Gallery of the United States Census<\/a> says,<\/p>\n

“The civil rights leader, minister, and recipient of the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize was born in 1929 and assassinated in 1968. Next Monday is a national holiday, honoring his memory and life’s work, appropriate in a month that also sees the anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.”*<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can learn more about the history of this federal holiday by watching the video “Martin Luther King Jr. Day: The making of a holiday<\/a>” via Films on Demand. The History Channel also has several videos and photos on Martin Luther King Jr<\/a>. The King Center in Atlanta, GA, has a digital archive<\/a> of letters, photos, and papers. The National Park Service has a web site “We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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