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Martin Luther King Jr Child Development Center Rutgers Division is a day care center at 67 Penn Street, Camden, NJ that provides quality child care services for children up to 6 years old of age. Their facility is licensed by the state of New Jersey to provide child care for up to a maximum of 60 children at a time.

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Martin Luther King Jr Child Care Center

Mission: ADMINISTERS CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM FOR IN-HOME CHILD CARE PROVIDERS.

Martin Luther King Jr Child Care Center is a 501(c)(3) organization, with an IRS ruling year of 1973, and donations are tax-deductible.

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  131 N SANTA FE AVE STE 100
Salina KS 67401-2642

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ADMINISTER CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM THROUGH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO PROVIDE REIMBURSEMENTS TO FAMILY DAY CARE PROVIDERS FOR SERVING NUTRITIOUS MEALS TO CHILDREN. APPROXIMATELY 1 … (More)
ADMINISTER CHILD AND ADULT CARE FOOD PROGRAM THROUGH THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE TO PROVIDE REIMBURSEMENTS TO FAMILY DAY CARE PROVIDERS FOR SERVING NUTRITIOUS MEALS TO CHILDREN. APPROXIMATELY 151 FAMILY DAY CARE PROVIDERS WERE SERVED. (Less)

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MLKDCC – Memorial Day Care Center

Martin L. King Jr. Memorial Day Care Center

Dba: Flushing Day Care Center

Site Code:

25QAUJ

36-06 Prince Street, Flushing, NY 11354

Tel: (718) 886-3165 Fax: (718) 886-3172

Email: mlkdccflushing@gmail. com

Facebook: Martin L King DCC

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Drop Off: 8:30 am -9:30am Pick Up: 2:30pm-3:30pm

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Welcome!

Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Day Care Center aims to provide a safe and nurturing environment for all children including children with special needs. We provide a variety of physical, intellectual, emotional and social activities to help them meet the challenges of our ever-changing world.

​We value diversity and multicultural learning experience to help children improve their communication skills, foster independence and gain self- confidence.

“The transformation of education begins with teachers”.

MLKDCC COVID-19 Health Guidance

1. Wearing of well-fitting masks for all staff, parents, visitors and children when indoors at all times.

2. Maintaining of 3-feet distancing when indoors & in the playground.

3. Onsite free COVID-19 testing.

4. Home test kits provided.

5. Follows the use of Health and Safety Checklist for parents during drop-off and pick-up of children.

6. Staff follows the health and safety requirements of checklist and temperature check.

7. Follows temperature check during drop off and pick up of children.

8. Classrooms: Use of plexi-glass divisions on each table. Use of air purifier/humidifiers in each classroom. Exhaust fans in each classroom.

MLKDCC Community Immersion & Engagement Program

Renaming of street to Sarah Whiting.

In honor of board member Carol Whiting’s mother.

Neighborhood Clean Up Drive

Chuck E Cheese Fun Day- April 8

“Week of the Young Child”

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Memorial Day Care Center

36-06 Prince Street

Flushing, NY 11354

Tel: (718) 886-3165

Fax: (718) 886-3172

Email: mlkdccflushing@gmail. com

Facebook: Martin L King DCC

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Drop Off:

8:30 am -9:30am

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Martin Luther King: history of struggle :: News :: TV Center

January 15 – 86 years since the birth of Martin Luther King, Baptist minister, orator, the greatest and brightest fighter for the rights of blacks in the United States. The story of his life is in our material.

Childhood and adolescence

Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta (southern Georgia) in the family of a Baptist church priest. Despite the fact that it was then that the Great Depression began in America, which led to the fact that 65% of the colored population of Atlanta was forced to receive unemployment benefits, economic difficulties did not affect the well-to-do, bourgeois family of the father-priest. Martin lived his childhood quite comfortably.

The profession of King Sr. to a large extent determined the life of his son. From an early age, Martin attended a church that was closer than the school and where his father served as an assistant pastor. The boy passionately and inspiredly sang the psalms, impressing the parishioners, who specially invited him to religious meetings for this purpose.

The first encounter with the injustice of racism occurred at the age of six, when Martin went to school. Among his friends were two white friends who, although they lived on the opposite side of the street, began to go to another educational institution. King Jr. did not pay attention to this and resorted to friends, but their mother began to send him back. Finally she told him bluntly that blacks and whites should not play together. The boy complained to his mother, and she – for the first time – explained to him about the system of racial relations that had developed in America.

Pastoring and Gandhi

Martin did well in school. He passed the exams for the 9th and 12th grades externally and at the age of fifteen, in 1944, was enrolled in Morehouse College, of which King Sr. was a member of the board of trustees. For a teenager, the profession of a priest was not attractive and the study of theology did not seem valuable to him; he chose between medicine or law.

Later, closer to the end of his college studies, he realized that it would be difficult for him to leave the field of the priesthood, and began to feel his calling. In addition, college teachers began to influence his choice. They began to convince him that the speeches of a real Christian preacher give food for thought and raise serious social problems. Martin realized that the pastor should be intellectually developed, and his service should be devoted not to finding otherworldly spiritual refuge, but to the momentary struggle between good and evil.

In 1948, Martin Luther King Jr. was admitted to Crowther Theological Seminary. Studying there was marked for King Jr. by spiritual quest. He was especially impressed by the lecture given by Dr. Mordecai Johnson. He traveled around America with a story about the activities and philosophy of the great Indian politician, a follower of the idea of ​​non-resistance to evil by violence, Mahatma Gandhi. Until that moment, King treated the great Indian with a great deal of skepticism – as an idealist, far from life. After listening to Johnson’s lecture, he changed his mind and began to voraciously read books about Gandhi. The example of a fighter for the independence of India from Britain would greatly influence King’s political activities.

University and marriage

In 1951, Martin became a bachelor of theology and was assigned to read the graduation speech. In addition, he received a $1,200 scholarship that allowed him to complete his studies at any university in the country. In Atlanta, his father and acquaintances persuaded him to finally become a preacher, but he insisted on his own and chose Boston University.

This period of life was associated not only with academic activities. Once he asked his girlfriend Mary Powell to introduce him to a girl, and from the south of the United States, since he considered Boston girls to be stiff. Powell offered two candidates, one of which he already knew. The second was named Coretta Scott, she studied at the conservatory. Their acquaintance immediately grew into a relationship. Coretta Scott considered for a long time whether to marry her or not, since marriage – especially to a priest – should, as she guessed, put an end to her future career as a singer. However, she agreed; at 19The marriage took place in 53.

“Bus Boycott”

When Martin Luther graduated from Boston University, the couple moved to Montgomery, Alabama. King was appointed pastor of the church, which was opposite the local Capitol. Its parishioners – about 300 people – belonged to the elite of the black population of the city, which concentrated enormous power in the hands of the priest.

Martin Luther began a stormy activity – in particular, he created committees to help the poor and support high school graduates. In addition, he joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NACAPC) – a large public organization in the United States, which to this day fights for the civil rights of the black population.

In 1955, for the first time, King became a witness and direct organizer of a protest action. It was associated with an ordinary case for the then America – a bus conflict: seated blacks had to give way to whites; some blacks refused to comply with this requirement. On December 1, 1955, seamstress Rosa Perke boarded the bus after work and took seats behind the front row, which was reserved for whites. White passengers entered the passenger compartment at the bus stop, and the driver demanded that the blacks – in particular, Perka – give way to those who entered. The three blacks, having heard the demands, got up from their seats, but Perke – her legs hurt from fatigue – refused. The driver called a policeman, who took the “offender” to the station, drew up a report, released her on bail and ordered her to appear in court in four days.

Rose turned to the leader of the NASP in Alabama, I. D. Nixon. Knowing Gandhi’s ideas of non-violent protest, it was he who came up with the idea of ​​the “bus boycott”. Nixon brought the idea to his wife, who advised him to stop fantasizing. Nevertheless, the “bus protest” found the support of many residents of the city. The NASP leader in Alabama called King, who agreed to help. On the day of the boycott, Coretta called her husband and pointed to a bus passing by their house – it was empty. The second one too. Martin Luther got into the car and began to drive around the city, looking at the buses. He counted only eight black passengers – at a time when transport was usually packed with them.

“Seated demonstrations”

On January 24, 1960, Reverend King’s term in Montgomery ended, and he decided to move to his small homeland, Atlanta. In the same year, “sitting demonstrations” began. The first of these were hosted by black students who were denied service. They came to public places – for example, buffets – and sat in them for a long time. The more people involved in these actions, the more opposition they caused – in the end, the police began arrests, which strengthened the protest movement.

Martin Luther was asked to organize a conference of “sit-in” activists. It elected fifteen board members who were to form a “permanent organization” of sit-in protesters. Meanwhile, the actions were becoming massive, and the defenders of white supremacy decided to discredit the very symbol of the protest movement – King. On February 17, two sheriff’s deputies appeared at an Atlanta church and served King with a warrant of arrest for falsifying tax returns. The case was heard by a jury, who delivered an acquittal on May 28.

In March-April 1963, King led mass demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama. The demonstrators were dispersed, and King – for violating the ban on demonstrations – was arrested for five days. While under arrest, he wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in response to reproaches for imprudent and untimely actions. In it, Martin Luther expressed his philosophy regarding both God and social life – in particular, he argued that progress is in no way connected with inevitability, but is the result of the tireless efforts of people who do God’s will.

“ I have a dream” and the Nobel Prize

Of particular notoriety was Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, which he delivered during the March on Washington in 1963 at the foot of the Lincoln Monument, while the US Congress was debating civil rights legislation. It was the day of the triumph of Martin Luther King. He was seen on TV and heard on the radio by tens of millions of Americans and millions of Europeans. “I have a dream that one day this nation will stand up straight and live up to the true meaning of its principle, ‘We hold it self-evident that all men are created equal.’ former slave owners will be able to sit together at the fraternal table.<...> I dream today! King announced. At 19In 1963, Time magazine named him Man of the Year.

In May 1964, King participated in demonstrations for housing integration held in St. Augustine, Florida. A month later, President Lyndon B. Johnson invited him to the White House, where King was present at the signing of the Housing Bill, which became part of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. The law prohibited segregation in public places and at work, in working conditions and wages.

At the end of the same year, Martin Luther was awarded the Nobel Prize. In his speech, he once again expressed the principle of non-resistance to evil by violence. “The movement does not seek to liberate blacks at the expense of the humiliation and enslavement of whites. It does not want victory over anyone. It wants the liberation of American society and participation in the self-liberation of the whole people,” he said.

Last years and murder

In the last years of his life, King’s attention was drawn not only to racism, but also to the problem of unemployment, hunger and poverty throughout America. Expanding horizons made it necessary to support the radical circles of Negro youth during the riots in the ghettos of Watts, Newark, Harlem and Detroit, which were contrary to the principles of non-violence. King became aware that racial discrimination was closely linked to the problem of poverty. But he did not have time to create a program on this issue, which explains the failure of efforts to improve living conditions in the slums of Chicago in 1966 However, in November 1967, King announced the beginning of the Poor People’s Campaign, which was to end in April 1968 with the gathering of poor whites and blacks in Washington.

On March 28, 1968, King led a protest march in Memphis, Tennessee. Its purpose was to support the striking workers. On April 3, Martin Luther delivered a powerful speech. “We have difficult days ahead. But it doesn’t matter. Because I’ve been to the top of the mountain. I’ve looked ahead and seen the promised land. Maybe I won’t reach it with you, but I want you to know that we – people, let’s get there.” The next day, he was standing on a balcony in a Memphis hotel and was hit by a sniper. His killer, James Earl Ray, got a 99 years in prison. It was officially acknowledged that he was a lone killer, but there is still controversy that King was killed as a result of a conspiracy.

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January 15, 2020 marks the 91st birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. , an Atlanta native who has become one of the most important figures in the civil rights movement. While it would be impossible to cover everything King accomplished in a simple list, we’ve put together a few intriguing facts that might pique your interest in learning more about the man who helped unite a divided nation.

1. Martin Luther King was not his name.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrives in London in 1961. J. Wilds / Keystone / Getty Images

One of the most recognizable proper names of the 20th century was not actually the one on the birth certificate. The future leader of the civil rights movement was born Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929 and named after his father Michael King. When the younger king was 5 years old, his father decided to change both names after learning more about the 16th-century theologian Martin Luther, who was one of the key figures in the Protestant Reformation. Inspired by this battle, Michael King soon began referring to himself and his son as Martin Luther King.

2. Martin Luther King Jr. was a doctor of divinity.

Dr. King receives an honorary Doctor of Civil Law degree from the University of Newcastle in England on 14 November 1967. He received his doctorate in theology in 1955. Hulton Archive / Getty Images

The use of the prefix “doctor” to refer to King has become a reflex, but not everyone knows the origin of King’s doctorate. He attended Boston University and graduated in 1955 with a doctorate in systematic theology. King also had a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Morehouse College and a bachelor’s degree in divinity from Crozer Theological Seminary.

3. Martin Luther King made 30 trips to prison.

Telegram from boxer Muhammad Ali sent to imprisoned Dr. Martin Luther King in 1967. Mario Tama / Getty Images

A powerful voice of an ignored and repressed minority, opponents tried to silence King the old-fashioned way: imprisonment. In the 12 years he spent as a recognized leader of the civil rights movement, King was arrested and jailed 30 times. Instead of thinking, King used the unsolicited downtime to advance his cause. At 19In 63, imprisoned in Birmingham for eight days, he wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail” – a long treatise in response to the oppression supported by white religious leaders in the South.

“I’m afraid this is too long to take up your precious time,” he wrote. “I can assure you that it would be much shorter if I wrote from a comfortable desk, but what else to do when you are alone all day in the dull monotony of a narrow prison cell, except to write long letters? thinking strange thoughts and praying long prayers?

4. The FBI tried to persuade Martin Luther King to commit suicide.

Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife Coretta Scott King lead a march for black voting rights from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery in March 1965. William Lovelace / Express, Getty Images

King’s rising fame and influence excited many of his enemies, but few were more powerful than FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. For years, Hoover kept King under surveillance, fearing that this subversive activity might sway public opinion against the bureau, and fearing that King might have communist connections. While there is still debate about how independent Hoover’s deputy William Sullivan acted, at 19In 1964 King was sent an anonymous letter accusing him of extramarital affairs and threatening to reveal his indiscretions. The letter suggested that the only solution was to withdraw from the civil rights movement, either by volunteering or by committing suicide. King ignored the threat and continued his work.

5. One sneeze could change history forever.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at a press conference in London, September 1964. Reg Lancaster/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Our collective memory of King has an unfortunate addition: his assassination in 1968, which ended his personal crusade against social injustice. But if Isola Ware Curry had gotten her way, King’s mission would have ended 10 years earlier. During an autograph session in Harlem in 1958, Ware approached King and plunged a seven-inch letter opener into his chest, nearly puncturing his aorta. Surgery was required to remove it. According to doctors, if King had even sneezed, the wound would have been so close to his heart that it would have been fatal. Curry, a 42-year-old black woman, suffered from paranoid delusions about the NAACP that soon crystallized around King. She was institutionalized and died in 2015.

6. Martin Luther King received an A for public speaking.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, May 1966. Jeff Kamen / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images

King’s promise as one of the great orators of his time was belated. While attending Crozer Theological Seminary from 1948 to 1951, King’s grades were weakened by C and C+ grades in two aspects of public speaking.

7. Martin Luther King received a Grammy Award.

At the 13th Annual Grammy Awards in 1971, King’s 1967 recording of “Why I Oppose the Vietnam War” was posthumously awarded Best Spoken Word Recording. In 2012, his 1963 speech “I Have a Dream” was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame (it was included decades later because its 1969 nomination was beaten for the Spoken Word Award by Rod McKuen’s Lonely Towns).

8. Martin Luther King loved

Star Trek .

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It’s hard to imagine King having the time or inclination to sit down and watch prime-time sci-fi movies on TV, but according to actress Nichelle Nichols, King and his family made an exception for Star Trek . In 1967, the actress met King, who told her he was a big fan and encouraged her to reconsider her decision to leave the show to perform on Broadway.

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“My family are your biggest fans,” Nichols recalled, telling her King, and said he continued, “It’s actually the only TV show my wife Coretta and I will let our little kids watch. stay up and watch, for it is no longer time for them to sleep. ” According to him, the character of Nichols in Lieutenant Uhura was important because she was a strong, professional black woman. If Nichols left, King remarked, the character could be replaced by anyone, as “[Uhura] is not a black role. And it’s not a female role.” Based on their conversation, Nichols decided to stay on the show for the duration of its original three-season run.

9. Martin Luther King spent his wedding night at the funeral home.

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s wife, Coretta Scott King, and their four children Yolanda (8), Martin Luther King (6), Dexter (3) and Bernice (11 months), February 1964 Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images

When King married his wife Coretta Scott in his father’s backyard in 1953, there was hardly a hotel in Marion, Alabama that would welcome black newlyweds. Coretta’s friend turned out to be an undertaker and invited the kings to stay in one of the rooms of his funeral home.

10. Ronald Reagan was opposed to the Martin Luther King holiday.

President Lyndon B. Johnson discusses the Voting Rights Act with civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965. Hulton Archive / Getty Images

Despite King’s undeniable dignity, MLK Day was not a foregone conclusion. In the early 1980s, President Ronald Reagan largely ignored calls for legislation to make the holiday official, for fear that it would open the door for other minority groups to claim their own holidays; Senator Jesse Helms complained that a missed day of work could cost the country $12 billion in lost productivity, and both were concerned about King’s possible communist sympathies. Common sense prevailed, and on November 2, 1983 years the law was signed. The official recognition of the holiday began in January 1986.

11. At some point we could see Martin Luther King on the $5 bill.

Martin Luther King Jr. Washington DC Monument Ron Cogswell, Flickr // CC BY 2.0

In 2016, the US Treasury announced plans to overhaul major currency denominations beginning in 2020. Along with Harriet Tubman adorning the $20 bill, the plan called for the reverse side of the $5 bill to be stamped with Lincoln to commemorate the “historic events that took place at the Lincoln Memorial”, including King’s famous 19 speech63 years old. However, in April 2018, the Trump administration announced that these plans were on hold, with bill payments to be delayed for at least six years.

12. One of Martin Luther King’s volunteers left with a story.

More than 200,000 people gather around the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, where the 1963 Civil Rights March on Washington ended with Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Kurt Severin/Getty Images

King’s 1963 speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, known as the “I Have a Dream” speech, will forever be remembered as one of the most provocative public speeches ever made. George Raveling, aged 26 at the time, volunteered to help King and his team during the event. When it was over, Raveling timidly asked King for a copy of the three-page speech. The king handed it over without hesitation; Raveling kept it for the next 20 years before fully realizing its historical significance and removing it from the book in which he kept it.

He turned down offers of up to $3.5 million, insisting that the document remain with his family, always noting that the most famous passage, in which King details his dream of a united nation, is missing from the lists. It was improvised.

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