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WI African-American Leader: MLK Would Be In Tears Today

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Monday, January 20, 2014   

MADISON, Wis. - In 1992, Gwen Moore was the first African-American woman to be elected to the Wisconsin Senate, and in 2004, she was the first African-American elected to represent Wisconsin in Congress. Rep. Moore (Dist. 4 - Milwaukee) says if Dr. King were alive today, he would be speaking out as an advocate for a fair immigration policy, to bring immigrants into the mainstream of American life.

Moore said Dr. King would still be delivering a message urging us to love all our brothers and sisters.

"He would definitely weigh in on income equality and how we're spending so much money in our war machinery, as opposed to reinvesting in our human capital," Moore said. "These are things that I can very clearly see that he'd weigh in on."

President Ronald Reagan signed the bill creating a federal holiday to honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in 1983, and Wisconsin was among the first states to officially observe that holiday. Not until 2000 did all 50 states observe the holiday.

One thing Dr. King would be dismayed about today is voting rights, Moore said.

"He'd be in tears, I think, to look at the huge backslide in voting rights - the sort of striking down of the voting rights law of 1963 - and certainly all of the efforts that are being made in courts all across the country to restrict voting participation," she said. "I think that he would be in tears."

Atlanta and Milwaukee are the only two cities that have celebrated Dr. King's birthday annually since 1984. Milwaukee and Madison have large, day-long observations, and many other communities across the state will hold some type of official remembrance of Dr. King today.




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