{"id":106999,"date":"2023-01-16T17:58:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106999"},"modified":"2023-01-16T17:58:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T17:58:08","slug":"on-martin-luther-king-day-nine-facts-about-him-that-may-surprise-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=106999","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;On Martin Luther King Day, nine facts about him that may surprise you&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2023\/01\/16\/martin-luther-king-day-facts-about\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;The United States honors the most prominent figure in its civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., on Monday. The national holiday was\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/constitutioncenter.org\/blog\/how-martin-luther-king-jr-s-birthday-became-a-holiday-3\" target=\"_blank\">hard won<\/a>\u00a0by his family and activists in 1983 and has been marked on the third Monday of January ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s a day to remember King\u2019s life and legacy. He championed nonviolent resistance in the struggle for civil rights; won a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2015\/01\/13\/why-martin-luther-king-jr-s-nobel-peace-prize-is-sitting-in-a-safe-deposit-box\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\">Nobel Peace Prize<\/a>; led a march from\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/04\/11\/selma-struggles-economic-justice\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\">Selma\u00a0<\/a>to Montgomery, Ala., to demand Black voting rights; and drew over a quarter-million people to the National Mall in 1963, when he delivered his\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vP4iY1TtS3s\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cI Have a Dream\u201d speech<\/a>. King,<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/retropolis\/wp\/2018\/03\/30\/who-killed-martin-luther-king-jr-his-family-believes-james-earl-ray-was-framed\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\">who was also the target of an FBI surveillance and disinformation campaign<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/video\/national\/in-this-1977-interview-james-earl-ray-insists-he-was-framed-for-kings-assassination\/2018\/03\/29\/f09bb05a-3378-11e8-b6bd-0084a1666987_video.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\">was assassinated<\/a>\u00a0at age 39 in 1968, is honored in cities across the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/martin-luther-king-jr-sites-across-the-globe\/2011\/08\/04\/gIQAK4R9YJ_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_4\" target=\"_blank\">world<\/a>, and his accomplishments have been well chronicled. But here are some lesser-known facts about his unique life.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;The United States honors the most prominent figure in its civil rights movement, Martin Luther King Jr., on Monday. The national holiday was\u00a0hard won\u00a0by his family and activists in 1983 and has been marked on the third Monday of January ever since. It\u2019s a day to remember King\u2019s life and legacy. He championed nonviolent&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107000,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106999\/revisions\/107000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}