RESOLUTION
BY COUNCIL PRESIDENT COLLINS-BELLAMY, MAJORITY LEADER RUBBO, MAJORITY WHIP ROBINSON, MINORITY LEADER BREEN, COUNCILMEMBERS, PINEDA -ISAAC, DIAZ AND MERANTE:
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A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YONKERS TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR THE LATE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. AND RECOGNIZE JANUARY 20, 2025 AS A DAY OF SERVICE IN THE CITY OF YONKERS
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WHEREAS, the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist minister and civil-rights activist, born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia as Michael King Jr., and changed his name to Martin after his father changed his name to Martin in honor of the Protestant leader Martin Luther; and
WHEREAS, the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. earned a sociology degree from Morehouse College and attended the liberal Crozier Theological Seminary in Chester, Pennsylvania, and then attended Boston University for his doctoral; and
WHEREAS, the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. married his college sweetheart Coretta Scott in June 1953. They had four children, Yolanda King, Martin Luther King III, Dexter Scott King, and Bernice King; and
WHEREAS, the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and helped lead and organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott, where he made his first speech which brought new energy and outlook to the fight for civil rights in Alabama; and
WHEREAS, the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with other Ministers and civil rights leaders founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in 1957 and was instrumental in assisting persons of color to exercise the right to register and vote in the Southern States, rights that had been historically denied to them; and
WHEREAS, the late Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in 1963, along with many other protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, in which he wrote his famous letter from ...
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