Temporarily to the nation Monday to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights icon who transformed this year was 83 bullets did not cut his life.
President Barack Obama will celebrate the holiday with a service project on the campus of Brown Education in Washington on Monday morning, and the first couple will attend the party and let freedom ring at the Kennedy Center at night on Monday.
This is because U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to speak at the march today in the King Dome in South Carolina on Monday, according to event organizers. The event will "celebrate the life of Dr. King, drew attention to economic and educational equality in the state, to protest the Confederate flag flying in front of the battle (the Capitol)," organizers said.
It has been observed for the first time the federal holiday honoring King, who was assassinated in April 1968, in 1986. In 1994, Congress designated a national day of service.
On Sunday, laid wreaths on the Rangers and the Washington Monument in honor of civil rights leader. I stayed with the family of the statue of King tower 30 feet of him as a crowd sang "Happy Birthday Gala" at the ceremony.
"We celebrate the best that we are but also what should be, knowing that we are not yet there," said Martin Luther King III.
Holidays on the occasion of the birth of civil rights leader - January 15, 1968 - Martin Luther King was planning the "poor" campaign for the collection of Americans from all walks of life to the demand for "jobs decent work and decent pay, "his son said.
"He did not live to see its fruits, and therefore, 44 years later, still challenge for our nation, especially in light of the fact that there are a lot of widespread poverty in this country," said Martin Luther King III.
He opened the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington last year, the General. The ceremony on Sunday after several days, authorities have confirmed they will correct the controversial quote one side of the monument.
The line now reads: "I was a drum major for peace, justice and righteousness."
This raised the price, which occupies a prominent place among more than a dozen lines in the King said on the site, in the debate last summer, when the poet Maya Angelou said he made the civil rights leader appear arrogant.
The original King's words, a speech in 1968 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, is the following:. "If you want to say I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice to say that I am a drum major for peace I was a drum major for righteousness, and all the other things that do not surface the issue" .
Angelo said that the output of "if" changes the meaning.
He has given the Minister of Interior, Ken Salazar, Department of National Park 30 days to consult with Martin Luther King Jr. National Foundation to commemorate the project, members of the family of King and others make a decision on issuing more accurate budget, an Interior Ministry official said last week.
The king's son, said Sunday he supports this step, because future generations may not know the context of the quote.
"This could be confusing for us today, no, but for generations yet unborn, can not understand"
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