Celebrities Honor Martin Luther King Jr. + His 10 Most-Tweeted Quotes

He said Dr. King’s dream is in disrepair “because of neglect, the lack of courage, the lack of sacrifice and the lack of direction”.

The state NAACP said there is still more work to do to honor King and the theme of this year’s rally is “education equity”, with speakers calling for SC to spend more money to help students in poorer, more rural school districts, which frequently have a majority of black students. “But what you can do is learn from history and not repeat it”, Walker said.

“Dr. King stood for unity”, Melvin White, founder of Beloved Streets of America, said.

It’s something she says has been lost since the Civil Rights movement, but not something that is gone forever. Day march downtown. The marching distance was shorter than other years, but the crowd was still full of enthusiasm.

Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr.in South Carolina Monday, all three Democratic candidates for president used his name to garner support.

A new generation of civil rights leaders is emerging in Cincinnati. Fifty years ago, King traveled to Chicago to launch a campaign against housing discrimination.

“Anytime he can get his act cleaned up together he can come back home”, Ducantell said, referring to Charles Stamps, the Grande Parade director. “She said that she had a driver that was taking her kids to school, but that he just wasn’t working out, and could I drive the kids to school”.

Along with touching on some of the more memorable aspects of King’s career, Killer Mike also touched on some things people tend not to attribute to the Nobel Peace Prize victor.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Day is also recognized as a day of service, and many volunteers participated in service activities around the city. A Cleveland police officer shot him in 2014 and a grand jury has declined to indict the officer.