Martin Luther King Jr. Day Ecards

We honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the nation’s most renowned Civil Rights leader, each year around his birthday.

Born in 1929, Dr. King led the struggle for equality throughout the 1950s and 1960s – from Montgomery to Birmingham to Atlanta to the nation’s capital – before his untimely death in 1968. Throughout this era, King remained steadfast about nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience, fighting against Jim Crow laws and lawful discrimination with dignity.

He cemented his role as a national leader in March of 1963 with his famous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. Sixty-plus years later, the speech remains a clarion call to what’s possible if we all work together. The March on Washington, protests in Birmingham and the Selma to Montgomery marches led to life-changing legislation, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968.