DATE: 2024-01-15

AO: rumble

Q: Boucher

PAX: Yogi, Frodo, Sharpie, Big Worm

FNGs: None

COUNT: 5

No figure is more closely identified with the mid-20th century struggle for civil rights than Martin Luther King, Jr. His adoption of nonviolent resistance to achieve equal rights for Black Americans earned him the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. King is remembered for his masterful oratorical skills, most memorably in his “I Have a Dream” speech.

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.… We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.

WOD

19 burpee buy-in

1929 is Birthday of MLK Jr

29 merkins

1956 – bus segregation illegal

56 squats

1958 – First Civil rights act since reconstruction (of 1957 but signed 1958) established civil rights section of justice department

58 flutter kicks – 4 count

1 lap

1961 – interstate segregation banned

61 bear crawls – count each time right hand hits ground

1963 – desegregation stores restaurants and schools in Birmingham

63 second plank

1964 – segregation ended

6 laps – 4 burpees each lap

1965 – all can vote

65 LBCs

1966 – initiative to end discrimination in housing,  employment and schools in Chicago

66 Freddie Mercuries

1968 – death of MLK

“There is nothing greater in all the world than freedom. It’s worth going to jail for. It’s worth losing a job for. It’s worth dying for. My friends, go out this evening determined to achieve this freedom which God wants for all of His children.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.