Muskegon events honor Martin Luther King Jr

“It’s just lovely to see people of all colors out here”, Anderson said.

“The outreach we’re doing here is a small part of it”, said LaMalfa.

Pastor Boyd says as a leader in Christ, Dr. King has inspired his faith.

Monday celebrates the life and achievements of Martin Luther King Jr. and one US history class got to learn about how influential of an American civil rights leader he was.

In California, protesters from a Black Lives Matter offshoot group shut down one side of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge when they stopped vehicles in the westbound lanes and chained themselves and the cars together to form a line across the bridge.

“Dr. King was a community-minded person, and when you’re involved in your community you can do great things”, said Mark Sain, of the Milwaukee Public School Board.

M.L.K. was tragically assassinated in 1968 – but his teachings live on.

The event is usually held at Binghamton City Hall each year. Congress passed the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act in 1965.

“It is so exciting to see all of the volunteers that have already came out to help”, said Simone Frierson, a member of the AmeriCorps federal volunteer organization.

Only Clinton dealt directly with the flag.

“It’s really fun you get to work with your friends, and stand up for something that happened a long time ago, and should still be happening now”, said Makayla Sorenson a fifth-grader at Bayview Academy.

It is those kinds of words and thoughts that have led this day to become a day of service around the country. She says SC had to choose between honoring King’s legacy or the Confederacy and made the right choice.

And as far as society has come, demonstrators also want to let people know racism is still alive, and society still has a way to go.

The Concerned Citizens Club of Troy hosted the annual event at Bethel Missionary Baptist Church.

Mayor William W. Dickinson Jr. told a story about a black student in the South who went to an all-white high school.