Today, January 20, is the day to commemorate Martin Luther King Jr., who dedicated his life to fighting for civil rights in the United States. Many American embassies in Asia, including Myanmar, are closed. Tributes have been written to Martin Luther King Jr. on the third Monday of January each year in the United States, and this year it coincides with the inauguration of President Donald Trump.
Reverend Dr. King was a Baptist minister from the southern US state of Alabama and a leader in the fight against racial discrimination in the United States. Dr. King led peaceful civil disobedience movements to fight against Jim Crow laws that denied the rights of most African Americans for nearly a century after the end of the American Civil War. He was assassinated on April 4, 1968, at the age of 39.
