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FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG ~
TODAY IS NATIONAL FREEDOM DAY
FROM THE PDX RETRO BLOG ~
On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate
degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major
protest of the African American civil rights movement: the
successful Montgomery Bus Boycott.
On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for
combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.
In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition
towards poverty and the Vietnam War.
LEADERS OF FOUR NATIONS MEET IN 1919
From left: British Prime Minister Lloyd George, Italian
Council President Vittorio Orlando, French Council
President Georges Clemenceau and President
Woodrow Wilson attending the opening day of
the Conference for Peace in Paris.
The day after British Prime Minister David Lloyd George’s
arrival in Paris, he meets with representatives from the other
Big Four nations—Prime Ministers Georges Clemenceau of
France and Vittorio Orlando of Italy and President Woodrow
Wilson of the United States—at the French Foreign Ministry
on the Quai d’Orsay, for the first of what will be more than
100 meetings.
Clemenceau (left) and President Wilson (center).
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