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Born on January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King, Jr. was a key leader of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s in the United States. President Lyndon B. Johnson issued this proclamation for a national day of mourning after King was assasinated on April 4, 1968.  This year we celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. with a Federal Holiday on January 16th.

As part of MLK day - this audio slideshow of the late Gil Scott-Heron’s memoir looks back at his 1981 tour with Stevie Wonder, a crucial turning point in the campaign to create a national holiday in the US to honour the great civil rights campaigner