heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character ... have a dream that one day the state of Alabama ... will be transformed into a situation where little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls and walk together as sisters and brothers.if America is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. freedom ring from the snow-capped Rockies of Colorado! freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God s children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of that old Negro spiritual, Free at last! Free at last! Thank God almighty, we are free at last!
. Martin Luther King, Jr. 'S death did not slow the Civil Rights Movement. Black and white people continued to fight for freedom and equality. Coretta Scott King is the widow (удова) of the civil rights leader. In 1970, she established the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Centre in Atlanta, Georgia. This "living memorial" consists of his boyhood home and the Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King is buried.15 had been observed as a public holiday for many years in 27 states and Washington, DC Finally, in 1986, President Ronald Reagan declared the third Monday in January a federal legal holiday commemorating Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. , Offices and federal agencies are closed for the holiday. On Monday there are quiet memorial services as well as elaborate ceremonies in honour of Dr. King. On the preceding Sunday, ministers of all religions give special sermons reminding everyone of Dr.King 's lifelong work for peace. All weekend, popular radio stations play songs and speeches that tell the history of the Civil Rights Movement. Television channels broadcast special programs with filmed highlights of Dr. King's life and times. br/>
4.Presidents Day
Until the mid-1970s, the February 22 birthday of George Washington, hero of the Revolutionary War and first president of the United States, was a national holiday. In addition, the February 12 birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the president during the Civil War (1861-1865), was a holiday in most states.the 1970s, Congress declared t...
