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Strong quotes for Martin Luther King Jr Day
Al Jazeera
On Monday, the US celebrates the life and legacy of civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr, who would have turned 89 years old.
The Baptist minister, Nobel Laureate and civil rights activist dedicated his life to "work for peace, social justice, and opportunity for all Americans".
Beginning in 1971, three years after he was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, many US cities and states began to mark what is now known as "MLK Day".
In 1983, then-President Ronald Reagan signed a bill that created a federal holiday in King's honour. It was first observed three years later and continues to be celebrated on the third Monday of January. The day was chosen because it is often around King's birthday, January 15.
Meet The Fearless Cook Who Secretly Fed — And Funded — The Civil Rights Movement
NPR
In December 1955, after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and other black ministers and community leaders organized a citywide bus boycott in protest. That part is well known.
Less well-known is the story of Georgia Gilmore, the Montgomery cook, midwife and activist whose secret kitchen fed the civil rights movement.
When King and others held meetings of the Montgomery Improvement Association at the Holt Street Baptist Church, Gilmore was there, selling fried chicken sandwiches and other foods to the African-American men and women gathered there who'd pledged not to use the city's buses until they were desegregated. Gilmore poured those profits back into the movement, as John T. Edge recounts in his book The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South.