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Montana State University and the Martin Luther King Day Organizing Committee will sponsor a PechaKucha-style MLK Day celebration on Tuesday, January 19, at the Emerson Cultural Center’s Crawford Theater. The event is free and open to the public.

National parks across the country are waiving entrance fees on Monday, January 19 to commemorate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

Yellowstone National Park is joining all National Park Service sites across the country on Monday, January 20, 2014 and offering FREE admission in observance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. federal holiday.

Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! Dr. King's lifelong dream of equality, love and respect for all men and women will never be forgotten. His momentous words of passion were integral to the African-American Civil Rights Movement. Here is an excerpt from the last speech he ever gave. He was assassinated the next day (April 4, 1968).

Activist and author Chris Stedman will speak at the annual Montana State University Martin Luther King, Jr., lecture on Thursday, January 17. Details here:

As we honor Dr. King's memory, 44 years after his assassination, let us not forget his message. Here's his famous "I Have A Dream" speech, delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination.