Nation depended on Monday to remember the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., civil rights icon, who turned 83 this year, had a bullet cut his life.
President Barack Obama will celebrate the holiday with a service project at Brown University Education in Washington on Monday morning, and the first couple will attend the party and let freedom ring at the Kennedy Center Monday night .
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It is expected that the U. S. Attorney General Eric Holder to discuss the day of the Kings at the meeting of the dome in South Carolina on Monday, according to organizers. Event "to commemorate the life of Dr. King, to call attention to economic inequalities and education in the state to protest the Confederate flag flying in front of the building (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 appropriated a national day of service.
On Sunday, the Rangers placed a wreath at the monument to Washington in honor of civil rights leader. I stood beside the King family tower 30 feet of a statue 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 have not come," said Martin Luther King III.
Rejoicing in the birth of civil rights leader - January 15, 1968 - Martin Luther King Jr. planned for the "poor" campaign for the collection of Americans from all walks of life to the demand for "decent jobs and wages worthy "his son said.
"He did not live to see it bear fruit and, therefore, 44 years later we are still a 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 public. Sunday's ceremony took place several days after authorities confirmed that the controversial appointment will be fixed on one side of the monument.
The line now reads: "I was a drum major for justice, peace and justice."
This raised the event, which occupies a prominent place among the king's most important lines tenth place, and the controversy last summer, when the poet Maya Angelou said he made a civil rights leader appear arrogant.
The words were original to the king, and a sermon of 1968 at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta: "If you say I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice to say that I am the main drum peace .. I was a drum major for righteousness, and all the other things and it was not superficial. "
Angelo said that leaving aside the "if" changes the meaning.
He has given the Minister of Interior, Ken Salazar, National Park Service 30 days to consult with Martin Luther King Jr. National Endowment for the proposed memorial, and members of the family of King and others to determine a more requires the appointment, said an Interior Ministry official last week.
The king's son, on Sunday supported the motion, because future generations may not know the context of the quote.
"This can be confusing for us today, no, but for generations yet unborn, can not understand," he said.
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