Don’t forget Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Chadron’s annual activities to help commemorate Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday are set for Monday.

As part of the celebration, students, faculty, staff, and other community members are encouraged to participate in a march up Main Street as an opener to the events. The march will start at 10 a.m.

When the march is complete, participants are invited to the Student Center to hear excerpts from King’s speeches and for refreshments.

A vigil of glow sticks is set to conclude the day’s events at 7 p.m. Monday in the Student Center.

King’s main goal was to affect change peacefully.

King is most famous for his “I Have a Dream” speech, which he gave Aug. 28, 1963 to a quarter of a million protestors who participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

This protest was organized to help shape policy concerning civil rights for blacks, especially those with poor labor conditions.

When he was 35, King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, making him the youngest recipient of the award at the time.

King was named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year in 1963.

James Earl Ray assassinated King on March 29, 1968, in Memphis, Tenn., at the Lorraine Motel. Ray was

President Ronald Reagan signed Martin Luther King, Jr. Day as a federal holiday in 1983, and President George H.W. Bush proclaimed in 1992 that the holiday should be observed the third Monday of January.