Martin Luther King and Peaceful Protest
Today’s video talks about the great American civil rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr., and phrases related to peaceful political protests.
King’s birthday was celebrated on Monday, January 18, as a national holiday in the United States, as it is every year on the third Monday of January.
Learn more about these expressions:
- To strike
- To picket
- To boycott
For more information on “MLK, Jr.” as King is known as, see our Cultural English 5.
For more vocabulary related to protests, check out (take a look at) Daily English 427 – Planning a Protest and Daily English 895 – Government Reactions to Protests.