Nigeria: In Memory of Martin Luther Echoes Non-Violent Elections in Nigeria

23 February 2015
opinion

The United States Consulate, Lagos, held its annual programme to mark the Martin Luther King Jr. Day, penultimate week. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is an American federal holiday that celebrates the official Birthday of the renowned African American human rights activist, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. King has remained a symbol of non-violent activism, a strategy through which his civil rights movement successfully protested racial discrimination in the federal and state laws of the United States of America.

Soon after his assassination in 1968, the campaign for a federal holiday in Rev. King's honour started and it was not until 1983, that President Ronald Reagan signed the holiday into law. As it is customary, a documentary film is screened to showcase the ideologies of the activist. In Memory of Martin Luther King Jr. was the title of documentary film that was screened to the delight of the mixed audience that attended the 2015 celebration.

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