In this week’s Man on the Street we asked students what Martin Luther King Jr. Day meant to them, and here is what they had to say.

“He made a huge difference and that’s something [that should] not be forgotten,” Jordan Slagle sophomore early childhood education major said. 

“It’s important to know your history [and] the impact that he did here,” Diane Harrison sophomore nursing major said

“To me, it celebrates the Civil Rights Movement and the person that sacrificed his life, [and] to not forget the things that people went through,” Chris Waahby junior geography major said.

“[It’s] good we’re learning about it- not like St. Patrick’s Day where no one really knows who St. Patrick is,” Corey Hanson sophomore English major said. 

 “The legacy didn’t die- we have it immortalized in a holiday,” Kalin Upson sophomore anthropology major said.

“We should do more than just have the day off, [we should] actually learn about him,” Mahogany Snipes sophomore middle level teaching said.

That will be it for this week Huskies! Keep a look out for our reporters out on campus so you can be featured in our next man on the street!