Patriot Day On September 11, 2001, our nation experienced a heartbreaking tragedy. On this day, four coordinated terrorist attacks were carried out by al-Qaeda, an Islamist extremist group. Nineteen terrorists from al-Qaeda hijacked four commercial airplanes, deliberately crashing two of the planes into the upper floors of the North and South Towers of the World Trade […]
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DayDid you know...Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. made frequent trips to Miami throughout his life, and even delivered an early version of his famous "I Have a Dream" speech at the Hampton House in 1960? On November 2, 1983, President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law, designating […]
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005)Rosa Parks was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott. The United States Congress has called her “the first lady of civil rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement”.On December 1, 1955, […]
