Tag Archives: civil rights movement
Honoring heroes, creating social change for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Since 1986, the U.S. federal government has observed a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights activist whose nonviolent message and words of hope helped to create a vision for a future of racial equality. …
Top 10 list of Black History Month facts: How many do you already know?
Now well into America’s annual February celebration of Black History Month, we used our trusty online research tool, Questia, to help gather a top 10 list of facts about Black History Month. Some of these facts may be more widely …