Monday, Jan. 17, 2021, is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in Iowa City.
According to TheKingCenter.org , Dr. King used the power of words and nonviolent resistance - protests and civil disobedience - to pursue his goals of racial equality in the late 1950s and '60s. He used similar tactics in his efforts against poverty and international conflict, never wavering from his belief that all men and women - regardless of skin color - were equal.
Dr. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis,...