Barack Obama Church Attendance

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"I have a dream" – Martin Luther King, Jr.

"I have a dream" is the popular name given to the expression public Martin Luther King, Jr., who called for racial equality and ending discrimination. King's delivery of the intervention on August 28 1963 from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom was a defining moment in American Civil Rights Movement.

Followed by three days of celebrations marking Martin Luther King through the United States. The celebration this year is inextricably linked to the arrival at the White House's first black president in the history of the United States later today.

Rallies and meetings began on Sunday in every U.S. state. More initiatives of 11,400 "official" double the last year have been organized in honor of Martin Luther King, the only other historical-political side of George Washington, a national day dedicated.

The increase events was also the result of a call for volunteer work by President-elect Barack Obama, who attended (With another 400,000 people) in concert at the Lincoln Memorial, where the memory of the king and the inauguration of new president repeatedly linked.

Boston and Los Angeles as well as regular events organized to commemorate the life and message of Martin Luther King, millions of Americans are serving Hot meals homeless, urban organization cleaning equipment to clean the poorest neighborhoods or collection of books for children in Mombasa, the Kenyan coastal city recently combined with Long Beach.

Although this year the opening of Obama seems to have something hidden celebrations in honor of Martin Luther King in the confirmation that many regard as being their "dream" of President-elect chose Martin Luther King Day to launch its Renew America Together Initiative, in an attempt to change the country.

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Biography of Martin Luther King, Jr.  

Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 to April 4, 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later changed his name to Martin. His grandfather began the family long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931, his father has served from then until now, and from 1960 until his death Martin Luther acted as co-pastor. Martin Luther attended segregated public schools in Georgia, where he graduated from high school at the age of fifteen years, received bachelor in 1948 from Morehouse College, a prestigious institution, black in Atlanta, from which his father and grandfather had graduated. After three years of theological studies at Crozer Theological Seminary in Pennsylvania, where he was elected president of a predominantly upper class white, received the BD in 1951. With a grant livestock Crozer, he enrolled in graduate studies at Boston University, completing his residence for the doctorate in 1953 and received the title in 1955. In Boston he met and married Coretta Scott, a young woman of rare accomplishments intellectual and artistic. Both son and two daughters were born in the family.

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From Nobel Lectures , Peace 1951-1970, Frederick W. Editor Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972