The library will be closed on Monday, January 18th, for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. This is one of four U.S. Federal holidays to commemorate an individual person. King was the chief spokesman for nonviolent activism in the civil rights movement, which successfully protested racial discrimination in federal and state law. He was assassinated in 1968. The day is observed on the third Monday of January each year, around the time of King's birthday, January 15th.
To learn more about Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement the following and many other titles and DVDs are available at the library:
A Dream of Freedom: the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968 by Diane McWhorter.
He Had a Dream: Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights movement by Flip Schulke.
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