On this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Google Doodle celebrates the idea of country coming together to honor the civil rights leader.
Monday's Doodle illustrates public action as one way of carrying out the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s authority and vision. Brooklyn-based artist Richard A. Chance created the memorial Doodle.
On the side of a brick construction, a group of people are putting up a big poster that depicts the view from King's podium during the 1963 March on Washington where he gave his historic "I Have a Dream" speech to about 250,000 attendees.
"Today and everyday, Dr. King's dream lives on in the hearts of millions of Americans who are taking part and giving back to their communities," the Google Doodle description says.
Celebrated on the third Monday of January, MLK Jr. Day is a national day of facility that recognizes the strides that King made in the civil powers movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Born on Jan. 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, King studied religion in college and afterwards entered Christian ministry. He helped organize demonstrations for the year-long Montgomery, Alabama, transit system boycott following Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger and her subsequent arrest.
A year when King's moving "I Have a Dream" speech and protests efforts, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, legally protecting segregation and discrimination on the basis of race, religion or nationality.
The role King played in promoting racial equality earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968 and posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.
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