In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day this Monday, January 19th, I'm delving into the story behind this remarkable man. How does a Black man born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929, a man whose grandparents were sharecroppers in a post slavery American South, a man subjected to Jim Crow laws that intentionally sought to hold him down, rise to such great heights as to become the only single American with his own dedicated national holiday? Let's fix that. 

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• NPR "I Have a Dream Speech"
• History.com "Martin Luther King Jr. "
• NAACP "Martin Luther King Jr."
• History.com "Jim Crow Laws"
• The King Center "About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr."
• Forbes "How Martin Luther King Jr. Improvised 'I Have a Dream'"
• Wikipedia "Martin Luther King Jr."

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