{"id":9667,"date":"2019-01-21T13:27:41","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T18:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=9667"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:08:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:08:33","slug":"its-mlk-day-honoring-the-legacy-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/21\/its-mlk-day-honoring-the-legacy-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s MLK Day!  Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety years ago, on January 15, 1929,\u00a0Michael King was born in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 Before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968 at age 39, he went on to become the noted Civil Rights leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and prolific author we\u00a0remember today as the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, here are some of his books and speeches available at the library:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.waubonsee.edu\/client\/en_US\/default\/search\/results?qu=&amp;qu=AUTHOR%3DKing%2C+Martin+Luther+\">https:\/\/catalog.library.waubonsee.edu\/client\/en_US\/default\/search\/results?qu=&amp;qu=AUTHOR%3DKing%2C+Martin+Luther+<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We also have the related graphic novel series, <em>March,<\/em> by\u00a0Congressman John Lewis, who experienced the Civil Rights movement first hand:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.waubonsee.edu\/client\/en_US\/default\/search\/results?qu=&amp;qu=TITLE%3DMarch+&amp;qu=AUTHOR%3DLewis+\">https:\/\/catalog.library.waubonsee.edu\/client\/en_US\/default\/search\/results?qu=&amp;qu=TITLE%3DMarch+&amp;qu=AUTHOR%3DLewis+<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ninety years ago, on January 15, 1929,\u00a0Michael King was born in Atlanta, Georgia.\u00a0 Before his assassination in Memphis, Tennessee on April 4, 1968 at age 39, he went on to become the noted Civil Rights leader, Nobel Peace Prize winner, and prolific author we\u00a0remember today as the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2019\/01\/21\/its-mlk-day-honoring-the-legacy-of-dr-martin-luther-king-jr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s MLK Day!  Honoring the Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9668,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions\/9668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}