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good morning and welcome to kid news I I'm Kim. Today is January 15th, 2024, the third Monday

in January, which means it's Martin Luther King Junior day in the U.S.

Because I have a dream.

Well, we're. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

I have a dream today.

That's one of the Reverend's most famous speeches delivered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at the March on Washington

in August of 1963.

But there's a whole lot that came before and after for this gifted speaker and icon of civil rights.

Martin Luther King Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929 and was actually known

as Michael for the first four years of his life.

Following a trip to Germany, Michael's dad changed his name to Martin

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