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The Calgary Sun n TUESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2012

Tuesday marks the 49th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.s historic speech, which helped place civil rights at the forefront of American politics and continued to pave the way for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I have a dream!
... but 100 years later, the Negro still is not free.
Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation ...

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Highlights from Martin Luther Kings famous speech

730+
number of cities in the U.S. that have streets named after King Kings age when he received the Nobel Peace Prize

A quick history of slavery and black rights in North America

1619: First African slaves arrive in ves
America (Jamestown, Virginia) authorizes slavery in New France

1709: Louis XIV formally lly

1787: Slavery made illegal in gal

Northwest Territory

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnicent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all men yes, black men as well as white men would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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1807: U.S. congress bans importation ans

of slaves from Africa helps tens of thousands of AfricanAmericans seek refuge in Upper and Lower Canada

1815-1865: Underground Railroad

1820: Slavery banned north of

southern boundary of Missouri

Aug. 28, 1833: British Parliament

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves within n Confederate states

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.
Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle
on the high plane of dignity and discipline.

abolishes slavery throughout colonies

1863: U.S. President

1865: Lincoln assassinated; ted; Ku Klux Klan forms in Tennessee; nnessee; slavery prohibited 1868: U.S. Blacks legally seen as citizens 1870: U.S. Blacks get right to vote Jan. 15, 1929: Martin Luther King, Jr.
born in Atlanta, Ga. Discrimination Act

1944: Ontario passes Racial

I say to you today my friends so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
Let freedom ring. And when this happens, and when we allow freedom ring when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Gods children black men and
white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual:

1946: Segregation in interstate bus travel banned in U.S. 1954: U.S Supreme Court rules ourt
racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional al

1955: Rosa Parks refuses uses to give up bus seat 1957: U.S. Civil Rights Act
passed

1963: Martin Luther King delivers July 2, 1964: U.S. President Apr. 3, 1968: Dr. King
Johnson signs Civil Rights Act ct

his famous I Have a Dream speech

delivers his last speech; the famous and inspiring Ive Been to the Mountaintop

Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!
Sources: infoplease.com; blackhistorycanada.ca; history-timelines.org.uk; Wikipedia
SUSAN BATSFORD, GRAPHICS EDITOR, TWITTER @SBATS1; INFOGRAPHIC BY MEGAN DINNER/QMI AGENCY

Apr. 4, 1968: Dr. Martin Luther

King is shot and killed