BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Missouri State University/Calendar of Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:20070311T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 DTSTART:20071104T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU TZNAME:CST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000.193688@calendar.missouristate.edu CREATED:20190107T161910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190107T161910Z LOCATION:To Be Determined SUMMARY:Martin Luther King Day DESCRIPTION:The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gained national promin ence during the Montgomery\, Alabama bus boycott of 1955–1956 and soon be came the acknowledged national leader of the growing movement to obtain c ivil rights for African Americans. His commitment to nonviolence\, his co urage\, and the moral power of his vision\, eloquently expressed in maste rful oratory and writings\, won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Toward the end of his life King became convinced of the interrelatedness of all forms of social\, economic\, and military oppression\, and broadened the sphere of his activism. He spoke out against U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam and was preparing to lead a massive Poor People's March on Wa shington when he was assassinated in Memphis on April 4\, 1968\, while he lping to organize the city’s sanitation workers. Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday is observed nationally on the third Monday in January.\n\n\nThi s calendar listing is intended to provide information about the named cul tural/religious observation and is not intended as an actual campus event . If a campus event is associated with this observance\, it will be liste d separately on the master calendar. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<html><head><title></title></head><body><p>Th e Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gained national prominence during t he Montgomery\, Alabama bus boycott of 1955–1956 and soon became the ackn owledged national leader of the growing movement to obtain civil rights f or African Americans. His commitment to nonviolence\, his courage\, and t he moral power of his vision\, eloquently expressed in masterful oratory and writings\, won him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Toward the end of h is life King became convinced of the interrelatedness of all forms of soc ial\, economic\, and military oppression\, and broadened the sphere of hi s activism. He spoke out against U.S. involvement in the war in Vietnam a nd was preparing to lead a massive Poor People's March on Washington when he was assassinated in Memphis on April 4\, 1968\, while helping to orga nize the city’s sanitation workers. Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday is observed nationally on the third Monday in January.</p>\n<p>This calendar listing is intended to provide information about the named cultural/reli gious observation and is not intended as an actual campus event. If a cam pus event is associated with this observance\, it will be listed separate ly on the master calendar.<span></span></p></body></html> DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200120 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200121 SEQUENCE:0 URL:https://calendar.missouristate.edu/viewevent.aspx?eventid=102338&occur renceid=193688 CATEGORIES:Public,Alumni,Current Students,Faculty,Staff END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR