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Remembering DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. on His National Holiday - 9 Things to Know

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Remembering DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. on His National Holiday - 9 Things to Know

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1. Martin Luther King Jr. was born Micheal King, and both he and his father changed their name after the German Protestant leader, Martin Luther. 

2. Martin Luther King Jr. began taking college classes full-time at Atlanta’s Morehouse College at the age of 15 and graduated with his Ph.D. at 25.

3. On October 14th, 1964, at age 35, Martin Luther King Jr. became the youngest man to receive a Nobel Peace Prize for resisting racial inequality through non-violence.


4. King donated all of the $54,123 (worth about $400,000 today) of his Nobel Peace Prize award to the Civil Rights movement. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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5. He was the first African American to be granted a national federal holiday. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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6. Over 1,000 streets in the U.S are named after Martin Luther King Jr.
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7. MLK was arrested more than 20 times for his non-violent civil rights protests.
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8. King won a Grammy for ‘Best Spoken Word Album’ for “Why I Oppose the War in Vietnam.”
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9. In 2006, the Martin Luther King Jr. National Monument in Washington, D.C. was marked the first monument on the National Mall dedicated to an African-American.

Story Credit: @balleralert.

Video & pics courtesy of:  @berniceking, Be A King Twitter.

Music by: Remember Me by Aaron Mist by Freemusicarchive.org.

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