by Lee VanAmee

Created on: December 27, 2009

Before I get into the celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; here are some pointers I use before presenting any great bulletin board display: 

What is the message I am trying to get across on this board?

Do I want it to be a collage of many pictures?

Do I need to list some hard cold facts to display also? 

What can I put up to draw someone's attention to this display I am putting up here? 

I feel in this sense that this is a celebration of both pictures and some hard cold facts of dates and facts that go along with the celebration of this heroic figure. Martin Luther King Jr. was a hero and one of the bravest people on earth. His actions have affected everyone in this nation and other nations around the world and continue to affect us, race notwithstanding. He was courageous enough to stand literally, stand up for his beliefs and stand for every one of us; all of our rights as human beings. 

When constructing a bulletin board for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day; I prefer to use the picture of him (use your favorite ones) in the middle or center of the board and then all of the actions and lives that he has touched streaming outwards. This shows like the sunshine that this man has fought for in true context. You may branch out and put pictures and list the actions and years of those actions as the sun's rays and outreach that has poured forth. I prefer to use the suns rays as a place to put dates, facts, names, or you can even use them to just list any impact that has been felt because of this man's bravery and fortitude. 

I have seen some people use many colors to demonstrate the work that Mr. King had done. In that context you could also use a rainbow theme and put him at the core of the rainbow. On each color of the rainbow list the impact or any and all essential facts and dates. 

I have also seen this celebration in a very stark black and white contrast. It can also be fitting as his message as a leader of humankind was to give up the black and white barriers that people had been holding up as a hate barrier. You may want to add only one other color, blue or red, to pronounce the contrasts better.

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