Tens of thousands expected for March on Washington's 60th anniversary demonstration
Martin Luther King III, along with his wife, Arndrea Waters King, and their 15-year-old daughter, Yolanda, have developed a set of traditions for this time of the year. Each August, they rewatch the Rev.
Martin Luther King Jr.'s rapturous address to the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Even if the civil rights icon's legacy is closer to the Kings than it is for most other families, they see march anniversaries as a teaching moment.
«We are like any other family, in the sense that we want to teach our daughter about this moment in history,» Arndrea said.
«And then we also try to connect it with movements or people that are doing things in the present.»
This year, the Kings will join an expected crowd of tens of thousands of people, who are gathering Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial in the nation's capital to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the late reverend's «I Have A Dream» speech.
The event is convened by the Kings' Drum Major Institute and the National Action Network. A host of Black civil rights leaders and a multiracial, interfaith coalition of allies will rally attendees on the same spot where as many as 250,000 gathered in 1963 for what is still considered one of the greatest and most consequential racial justice and equality demonstrations in U.S.
