“I didn’t understand that it would, at the time I was watching the marches and the rioting and agitating for change, the bus boycotts, the marches, but I very much was a part of the movement in Canada from a very young age”, says Jones. But he warned there would be other fights ahead.
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Day Monday with a visit to a Washington, D.C. elementary school to participate in a community service project.
Sanders, a US senator from Vermont, reminded the crowd that King was a dynamic leader who wanted to help the poor.
Monday is the 30th anniversary of the federal holiday honoring the civil rights leader, and the 23rd year for the march in Austin.
Martin O’Malley said King would be ashamed the county has made it harder to vote but easier to buy a gun.
Elsewhere, an overflow crowd showed up at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta to celebrate its former pastor’s legacy at an annual commemorative service.
The day started with beautification service projects around the city, followed by a service and a march, then to Georgia College for a gathering called “Remember the Dream…”
“To let them know the importance of Dr. King and as they get older its going to stick in the back of their minds so they know what to expect when Dr. King’s birthday comes around every year”, Tamara Foster said. “We can give our voice to the important values that matter to our community and to the world”, Montana State Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau said during the event.
“Y’all, we can’t keep being distracted, because if you’re not careful, we’re about to allow a reality show host to bully himself into becoming president of the United States of America”, she said. About 200 of the participants were children.
Thousands of people lined the streets of South Los Angeles to for a Martin Luther King Jr.
Castro said King moved into an apartment on Chicago’s west side and later described seeing “a daily battle against depression and hopelessness” as babies were attacked by rats and children wore clothes too thin to protect against the cold winter weather.
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The St. Paul, Minnesota, Police Department has put an officer on leave while it investigates allegations that he made a post on Facebook urging drivers to run over protesters who rallied against the police killings of two black men in the Twin Cities past year.
