Today marks the 30th Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday—celebrated on the third Monday in January, close to his January 15th birthday.
In 1963, on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation which freed millions of slaves, King observed that: “one hundred years later, the Negro still is not free.” Toward the end of the speech, King departed from his prepared text for a partly-improvised peroration on the theme “I have a dream.” In this part of the speech, which most excited the listeners and has now become its most famous, King described his dreams of freedom and equality arising from a land of slavery and hatred. And with that single phrase, Martin Luther King Jr. joined Jefferson and Lincoln in the ranks of men who’ve shaped modern America.
Last year, I blogged about “10 Leadership Lessons from Martin Luther King, Jr.”
This year, I’d like to take a look at a 2004 book by Brenda Salter McNeil and Rick Richardson entitled The Heart of Racial Justice: How Soul Change Leads to Social Change.
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