Selma, Ala. Daily Photo: MLK Jr. federal holiday

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Sunday, January 20, 2013

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

The United States gets a holiday Monday for Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday.

The civil rights leader, who was assassinated in Memphis in 1968, was invited to Selma

in the 1960s to aid the voting rights movement for black Americans.

He eventually led the Selma-to-Montgomery Voting Rights March in 1965

that was protected by the National Guard.

A federal holiday honoring his birthday on the third Monday in January

was signed into law in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan.

You can read more about King HERE.

This bust of King is in front of Brown Chapel AME Church on Martin Luther King Jr. Street.

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Selma is among the oldest cities in Alabama and has the largest contiguous historic district. It is known for its Civil War and Civil Rights history. The Battle of Selma was one of the last fought in the War Between the States, and the town was a center for the Voting Rights Movement in the 1960s. Today, with a population of about 20,000, Selma is the largest town in the western Black Belt region. The Black Belt, named for the color of its soil, stretches across Central Alabama from Mississippi to Georgia.

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