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This event began as a promotional effort by Pasadena's distinguished Valley Hunt Club. In the winter of 1890, the club members brainstormed ways to promote the "Mediterranean of the West." They invited their former East Coast neighbors to a mid-winter holiday, they
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could watch games such as chariot races, jousting, foot races, polo and tug-of-war under the warm California sun. The abundance of fresh flowers, even in the midst of winter, prompted the club to add another showcase for Pasadena's charm: a parade would precede the competition, where entrants would decorate their car-
riages with hundreds of blooms. The Tournament of Roses was born. "In New York, people are buried in snow," announced Professor Charles F. Holder at a Club meeting. "Here our flowers are blooming and our oranges are about to bear. Let's hold a festival to tell the world about our paradise." During the next few years, the festival expanded to include marching bands and motorized floats. The games on the town lot (which was re-named Tournament Park in 1900) included ostrich races, bronco busting demonstrations and a race between a camel and an elephant (the elephant won). Reviewing stands were built along the Parade route, and Eastern newspapers began to take notice of the event. In 1895, the Tournament of Roses Association was formed to take charge of the festival, which had grown too large for the Valley Hunt Club to handle. The Tournament of Roses has come a long way since its early days. The Rose Parade’s elaborate floats now feature high-tech computerized animation and exotic natural materials from around the world. Although a few floats are still built exclusively by volunteers from their
liams-King and his grandparents and his two siblings, Christine and Alfred Daniel Williams-King. His childhood home was a twostory yellow brick house and was a religious one, where Martin would recite from the Bible at dinnertime. Who would of known that this child would become known throughout the world as a Civil Rights Leader, even if he didn’t always want to be a minister, it’s clear that his childhood shaped the rest of his life: From his earliest memory Martin Luther King Jr. has had a strong aversion to violence in all its forms. The school bully walloped him; Martin did not fight back. His younger brother flailed away at him; Martin stood and took it. A white woman in a store slapped him, crying, “You’re the
[n—-r] who stepped on my foot.” Martin said nothing. Cowardice? If so, it would come as a surprise to Montgomery, where Martin Luther King has unflinchingly faced the possibility of violent death for months. The shabby, overcrowded Negro schools in Atlanta were no match for the keen, probing young man that liked getting in over his head and bothering people with questions because of the brilliant mind he had. He leapfrogged through high school in two years, was ready at 15 for Atlanta Morehouse College, one of the South’s Negro colleges. At Morehouse, King worked with the city’s Intercollegiate Council, an integrated group, and learned a valuable lesson. It would say that he was ready to resent all the white race, but as he got to see more of white people, his resentment was softened, and a spirit of cooperation took its place. Martin never felt like a spectator in racial problem, he wanted to be involved in the very heart of it. As a kid, in the classic tradition of kids, Martin wanted to be
By: Lily Rothman
Martin Luther King Jr. was born and named Michael King Jr. He was born on Tuesday, Jan. 15, 1929.He was six years old when his father a pastor in Atlanta decided that the two should switch out their first names to Martin, in honor of Martin Luther, the priest who brought about the Protestant Reformation. He lived with his father as well with his mother, Alberta Wil-
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sponsoring communities, most are built by professional float building companies and take nearly a year to construct. The year-long effort pays off on New Year’s morning, when millions of viewers around the world enjoy the Rose Parade. Now that you have the history of how the Rose Parade begin, you can start planning for next year for a day of fun with your family and friends.
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a fireman. Then, hoping to treat man’s physical ills, he planned to become a doctor. Becoming more deeply engrossed in the problems of his race, he turned his hopes to the law because he felt he could see where he could play a part in breaking down the legal barriers to Negroes. At Morehouse, Martin came to a final resolution being that he had been brought up in the church and knew about religion he could serve as a vehicle to modern thinking. He wondered whether religion, with its emotionalism in Negro churches, could be intellectually respectable as well as emotionally satisfying.” He decided it could—and that he would become a minister.
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