
{"id":8697,"date":"2010-01-14T10:43:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=8697"},"modified":"2010-01-14T10:44:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T18:44:28","slug":"mlk-by-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/01\/14\/mlk-by-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"MLK by the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris Fitzsimon<\/strong><br \/>\n81 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since Dr. Martin Luther King was born on Jan. 15, 1929<br \/>\n47 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since King wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Letter from a Birmingham Jail\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on April 16, 1963<br \/>\n47 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since King led the March on Washington on Aug. 8, 1963<br \/>\n42 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since King was assassinated in Memphis on April 4, 1968<br \/>\n27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since the North Carolina General Assembly voted to establish King\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s birthday as an official state holiday in 1983.<br \/>\n27 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since President Ronald Reagan signed the federal King Holiday into law on Nov. 2, 1983<!--more--><br \/>\n10 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since South Carolina became the last state to officially recognize the King Holiday in 2000<br \/>\n33 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c percent of employers who give all or most workers a day off on the King Holiday (Bureau of National Affairs, Jan. 9, 2007)<br \/>\n7 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of statewide elections in North Carolina since the King Holiday was established in 1983<br \/>\n9 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of members of the N.C. Council of State, all statewide elected officials<br \/>\n63 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c total number of elections of Council of State members since the King Holiday was established<br \/>\n2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of Council of State elections won by an African-American (Ralph Campbell, elected State Auditor, 1992, 1996 and 2000.)<br \/>\n28 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of major-party nominees for governor or lieutenant governor since the King Holiday was established in North Carolina in 1983<br \/>\n0 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of major-party nominees for governor or lieutenant governor since the King Holiday was established who were African-American<br \/>\n14 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of General Assembly sessions in North Carolina since the King Holiday was established in 1983<br \/>\n28 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c total number of elections of speaker of the house and president pro tem of the Senate since the King Holiday was established<br \/>\n2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of elections for House speaker or Senate president pro tem won by African-Americans since the King Holiday was established (Dan Blue, elected House speaker in 1991 and 1993)<br \/>\n43 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since King said in his book<em> Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?<\/em> that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the curse of poverty has no justification in our age\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n39,108,422 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of people in the United States living in poverty in 2008 (U.S. Census Bureau, <em>American Community Survey<\/em>)<br \/>\n13 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c percent of people in United States living in poverty in 2008 (Ibid)<br \/>\n1,301,929 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c number of people in North Carolina living in poverty in 2008 (Ibid)<br \/>\n14.6 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c percent of people in North Carolina living in poverty in 2008 (Ibid)<br \/>\n11.2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c percent of white Americans living in poverty in 2008 (Ibid)<br \/>\n24.7 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c percent of African-Americans living in poverty in United States in 2008 (Ibid)<br \/>\n9.8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c percent of white North Carolinians living in poverty in 2008 (<em>Snapshot of Employment, Poverty, Income, and Health Coverage in North Carolina<\/em>, N.C. Justice Center)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Fitzsimon 81 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since Dr. Martin Luther King was born on Jan. 15, 1929 47 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since King wrote \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Letter from a Birmingham Jail\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on April 16, 1963 47 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since King led the March on Washington on Aug. 8, 1963 42 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c years since King was assassinated in Memphis on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8697"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8699,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8697\/revisions\/8699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}