Why MLK day?

Images of an infamous time in American history...

 Dr. King giving a speech in Washington D.C.

 The students depicted above were protesting NOT being able to eat at the lunch counter in a "Grants" department store.  They could work in that same store, but couldn't eat there. 

 Angry red neck youths who disagreed with the possibility of "colored people" having equal rights under the law. 

 Dr. King and several others were fined $500 and sentenced to 386 days in jail for blocking the progress of a city bus.  He actually spent 2 weeks in prison because the move back fired and brought international attention to the civil rights struggle.

1956, (after over a year of boycotting) Rosa Parks riding in the front seat of a bus, after the Courts ruled that segregating the buses was unconstitutional.