MLK
January holiday honoree
MLK is the common abbreviation for Martin Luther King Jr., the American civil rights leader.
The initials appear most often in MLK Day, the federal holiday observed on the third Monday of January.
Streets, schools, and public buildings across the United States bear the name: MLK Boulevard, MLK Memorial.
Forced separation by group
- integrationCombining into a whole
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
- sit-insStationary protest tactics
Birmingham · Selma · discrimination · racism · prejudice · injustice · equality · freedom
Free from disturbance
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- nonviolentNot using physical force
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
- reconciliationRestoration of friendly relations
Gandhi · agape · confrontation · dignity
Ability to see
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
- equalitySame status for all
- brotherhoodKinship among men
- freedomAbsence of constraint
hope · unity · promise · opportunity · justice · harmony · future · children
Mid-twentieth century date
- AugustEighth calendar month
- WashingtonU.S. seat of government
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
holiday · assassination · Memphis · 1968 · Atlanta · remembrance
Same status for all
- fairnessJust and equal treatment
- rightsJustified claims to freedoms
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
- moralityRight and wrong principles
ethics · conscience · righteousness · oppression · poverty · reform · dignity · sanitation
segregation
Forced separation by group
- integrationCombining into a whole
- desegregationEnding enforced group separation
- NAACPCivil rights advocacy organization
sit-ins · Birmingham · Selma · discrimination · racism · prejudice · injustice · equality · freedom · boycott
peaceful
Free from disturbance
- pacifismAntiwar moral stance
- nonviolentNot using physical force
- resistanceCapacity to withstand force
reconciliation · Gandhi · agape · confrontation · dignity
vision
Ability to see
- aspirationStrong desire for achievement
- equalitySame status for all
- brotherhoodKinship among men
freedom · hope · unity · promise · opportunity · justice · harmony · future · children
1963
Mid-twentieth century date
- AugustEighth calendar month
- WashingtonU.S. seat of government
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
memorial · holiday · assassination · Memphis · 1968 · Atlanta · remembrance
equality
Same status for all
- fairnessJust and equal treatment
- rightsJustified claims to freedoms
- equityImpartial treatment or ownership value
morality · ethics · conscience · righteousness · oppression · poverty · reform · dignity · sanitation · inequality
reverend
Worthy of veneration
activist · organizer · visionary · charismatic · influential · pioneer · reformer · advocate · spokesman · figurehead
- 20th Century IconsEinstein, Churchill, Gandhi, Hitler, FDR
- American IconsAbraham Lincoln, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King Jr.
- Sixties IconsBeatles, JFK, Marilyn Monroe, Bob Dylan, Jackie Kennedy
- American IdeasAmerican Dream, American exceptionalism, transcendentalism, manifest destiny, self-reliance
- Black DiasporaAfrican American, African Americans, African diaspora, African heritage, African roots
- Black IconsMartin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Jackie Robinson
Alabama segregationist politician
white supremacists · segregationists · J. Edgar Hoover · Adolf Hitler · racists
- MLK DayJanuary civil rights observance
- MLK speechHistoric civil rights oration
- MLK MemorialWashington tribute to minister
- MLK assassinationMurder of civil rights leader
milk, milks, milked, milking, milky, milkiness, milkman, milkmaid, milkshake