Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King from FreeScore.com
Posted on January 11th, 2012
Every week, we usually provide a weekly roundup of the news about credit and credit scores. This week however, we are going to look at the week ahead.
And in doing so, is recognizing and giving credit where credit is due.
Next week marks Martin Luther King Day in the United States. As the figurehead, and leader of the civil rights movement, we pay tribute to him during this week as January 15th would have been his 83rd birthday.
While Dr. King led the Civil Rights as its leader and figurehead, we also recognize a few key events and people that that helped Dr. King make Civil Rights a cornerstone in American history.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, (1954), was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court that declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African-American civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress called the first lady of civil rights, and the mother of the freedom movement.
On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blakes order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (enacted July 2, 1964) was a landmark piece of legislation in the United States that outlawed major forms of discrimination against African Americans and women, including racial segregation. It ended unequal application of voter registration requirements and racial segregation in schools.
Here is to thanking Dr. King and all of those people and events that made freedom and civil rights in the United States a reality.
The Team
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