{"id":458,"date":"2016-01-12T13:15:13","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/?p=458"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T18:15:13","slug":"martin-luther-king-jr-day-celebrations-at-au","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/martin-luther-king-jr-day-celebrations-at-au\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebrations at AU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAmerican University first celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 20, 1986. AU cancelled classes and gave its employees the day off. The AU Black Coalition called for AU\u2019s celebration of the King Holiday to \u201ccapture the essence of the man and the movement that he represented.\u201d In 1987 and 1988, AU held \u201cState of the Dream\u201d conferences which looked at what progress has been made in civil rights so far and what remains to be done. The speakers focused on the areas of education, skills, housing and economic mobility. Starting in 1989, AU held an annual commemoration ceremony with speakers and music. AU inaugurated its MLK Day of Service in 2003. AU\u2019s current celebration includes a variety of activities including lectures, musical tributes, film screenings and a day of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/ocl\/volunteer\/ODSE-Dr-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-Day-of-Service.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">community service.<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_460\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/95959_23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-460\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/01\/95959_23-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"AU Gospel Choir performing at AU\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day ceremony in 1998\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-460\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">AU Gospel Choir performing at AU\u2019s Martin Luther King Jr. Day ceremony in 1998<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American University first celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day on January 20, 1986. AU cancelled classes and gave its employees the day off. The AU Black Coalition called for AU\u2019s celebration of the King Holiday to \u201ccapture the essence of the man and the movement that he represented.\u201d In 1987 and 1988, AU held \u201cState [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-university-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}