January 15: 1908 / Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority is founded at Howard University in Washington D. The culmination of efforts by Ethel Hedgeman and eight other undergraduates, it is the first Greek-letter organization for African-American women. 1929 / Michael Luther King is born in Atlanta GA. Better known as Martin, a name he will formally adopt, King will become a Baptist minister, world-renowned civil rights leader, and an advocate of non-violence. His efforts, beginning with the Montgomery bus boycott in 1955 and continuing for the next 13 years, will fundamentally change civil rights for African-Americans and earn him a number of honors and awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize (1964), Medal of Freedom, and Spingarn Medal (1957). 1968 / Reporting the results of a Jet magazine poll, The New York Times article “Negro History Week Stirs Up Semantic Debate” indicates that 59% of those polled prefer the term Afro-American or black to Negro. 1970 / Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, the nearby crypt containing the remains of Martin Luther King, Jr., and his boyhood home are dedicated as part of a memorial to be known as the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Change. I, Too Sing America
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