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Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Martin Luther King, Jr's birthday celebrations are held annually on the third Monday of January, following his birthday on January 15th. The holiday is Monday, January 20th. The Class of Office of Inclusion and Engagement would like to extend a special thanks to the Office of the President, Office of the Provost, Office of the Dean of the College, The Institute for Honor, the Washington and Lee University School of Law, The Division of Student Affairs, Student Activities, History Department, Williams School of Commerce, Economics, and Politics, and Virginia Military Institute's Office of Diversity, Opportunity, & Inclusion for their support of this week's events.
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Dr. King’s Legacy: 50 Years of Progress
On the evening of April 4, , as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stood on a balcony of his hotel room in Memphis, Tenn., an assassin took the shot that ended his life. He was in Memphis to support striking sanitation workers.
Although King is mostly regarded for his civil rights work in the South, he devoted extensive time to raising awareness about racial injustices in the Northeast including supporting the thousands who protested the exclusion of African-Americans from Girard College in Northeast Philadelphia.
“President Johnson’s Civil Rights Act of led to the end of official legal discrimination throughout the U.S., but King’s assassination in demonstrated that racism was still a prevalent force,” states William Watson, Ph.D., professor of history at Immaculata.
According to Watson, Chester County, where Immaculata University is located, has often been thought of primarily as a place where the Underground Railroad operated in Antebellum years in the nineteenth century. However, like the rest of America, it has been a complicated place to describe in terms of race relations. In there were still five African-American slaves residing within the county and in Zachariah Walker was lynched by a white mob in Coatesville. However, a ne