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Rudder Auditorium (booksigning in lobby) Presented by: Southwestern Black Student Leadership Conference MSC Black Awareness Committee For more information please call the MSC BAC at 845-1515 or visit our web-site at [http://bac.tamu.edu]. Persons with disabilities please call 845-1515 to inform us of your special needs. We request three (3) working days prior to the event to enable us ■* to assist you to the best of our abilities. BY SUSAN OVERCASH The Battalion A pril 4, 1968. Dusk settles over Mem phis, Tenn., in a pale passage of still sky. The air, thick and suffocating, is in escapable even in the farthest reaches of the city. Tragedy is about to strike. At 6:01 p.m., shots break through the si lence at the Lorraine Motel. Within minutes, the American people will lose one of the greatest leaders in United States history, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Yesterday, millions of people across the United States, of all races and ethnicities, cel ebrated the life and death of King. Through his landmark achievements in the civil rights movement and his vision of a bet ter life for all people, King left an indelible mark on American society. Born in 1929 to a schoolteacher and minis ter, King spent his childhood in the Sweet Auburn district of Atlanta, Ga. He attended Morehouse College in Atlanta and graduated from seminary in 1951. In 1955, King moved into the spotlight of the civil rights movement by organizing a 13- “All of this coming together brought about the meaning and purpose is why we pay homage to Dr. King: However, King never lost sigl dream, publishing Stride Toward Fte recollection of the Montgomery bus He continued using non-violeni and demonstrations to gain equality, some time imprisoned for his effort: In 1963, King )ed the March on ton, delivering his “I Have a Dreair from the Lincoln Memorial. This effort to achieve equality ea the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. In 1968, on the second-story balcc Lorraine in Memphis, Tenn., King w sinated. However, his work did not end death. Through the years, King's use ol lent protest and his vision of a belt has given hope to a torn and riotous The evolution of King’s birthday into a na tional holiday has been a long-fought battle. For many years, only George Washington / is/ti HpC of in \6 nan am .hnstopher C — Lance Jackson The Lincoln Recreation Center month bus boycott in Montgomery, Ala. to end segregation. King was continually harassed and threat ened by segregationists. He even survived a bombing of his home in 1956. jmbus had the honor of their birthdays being national holidays. King’s birthday, January 15th, is now hon ored as well. Martin Luther King Day is cele brated on the third Monday of January each year. Established as a national holiday in 1986, MLK Day is perhaps the most battled holiday lo ever come about in the United States. The first legislation was submitted in 1968, shortly after King s death. However, it took 18 years for this legisla tion to pass through Congress and become law. MLK Day was not celebrated as a Universi ty holiday at Texas A&M until 1997. Lew Weaver, a junior chemical engineering major, said it is an important holiday for a va riety of reasons. “MLK Day is a significant day to me be cause it is the celebration of a dream and ac complishment of a man who saw what could be and how things could be better,†Weaver said. "I reflect on this every day; walking across campus, you see people of all cultures coex isting on a friendly basis. It’s a really positive thing,†he said. MLK Day is not simply another holiday. In stead, public figures have urged Americans to honor the dream of Mjrtin Lu through community service on To demonstrate the importa cy of public sendee and activismij " idem Bill Clinton visited sill ' in a retirement home in' yesterday. Pre zei D.( Locally, the 14th Annual King Jr. Celebration was held! Lincoln Recreation Center in Cd ’ speaker. Myi lerson dramatizatiosjJ ; of Dr. King. Seve ormed. people in the con tended, showing their support! and accomplishments of King. Lance Jackson, center su[ Lincoln Center, said MLK Day is, port unity for people of all eihnicia "All of tin-1oming together the meaning and purpose is wki homage to Dr King," Jackson said. "As always, we try tousethecefei a calling to action for others ituhec ty to take heed and take partin] munitv activism. If all of us maked lion, it reiterates what MLK was™ across.to 14s.†be said. mmmrnmmmrnmmmMmmmmtmmmmii We’ll see you soon. Sometimes it is a child awakening with a high fever. Or a toe stubbed in the dark during a midnight raid on the refrigerator. Or a knee twisted in an over zealous game of touch football. Or the product of too much fun on Friday Night. Or the complications of chest pains that frighten you into next Tuesday. Whatever prompts you to seek immediate medical treatment, we’re here to help. 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