Listen to the show: Choose the Game Today on Venita’s View, I
would like to acknowledge that today is the celebration of
Martin Luther’s King Birthday. Martin Luther King, Jr. born
Michael Luther King on January 15, 1929 was an American
clergyman, activist, and African American prominent civil rights
leader. At the age of 35, Martin Luther King was the youngest
man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize for the quest for
Peace and Justice. When notified of his selection, he announced,
that he would turn over the prize money of $54,000.00 to further
the cause of the civil rights movement. However, I would like to
shine the light today on Rosa Parks. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks
was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Mrs. Parks was
an African American civil rights activist whom the U. S.
Congress later called, the first lady of civil rights and “the
mother of the freedom movement.” On December 1, 1955 in
Montgomery, Alabama, Parks at the age of 42, refused to obey bus
driver James Blake’s order that she