| On
Saturday, January 15, join Adai Lamar
as she joins with the City of Long Beach for
the annual Unity Day Parade and Celebration...
Parade starts at 10am and rolls out from MLK
Avenue & Anaheim Street proceeding north
ending at MLK Park
Immediately after the Unity Day Parade join
KJLH for a funfilled festival feature live
performances by Chaz Shepherd, Lorenzo Johnson
& Praizum, and The LowRider Band (Original
composers of the hits: Lowrider, Why Can't
We Be Friends, Spill the Wine, Cisco Kid,
Slippin Into Darkness, The World is a Ghetto
and more)
On Saturday, January
15, join the City of Inglewood for
its 28th Annual MLK Commemoration… Beginning
at 9am with a rousing ecumenical service at
the Tabernacle of Faithful Cnetral Bible Church.
Hosted by KTLA's Michaela Pereira and featuring
a lineup of moving observations and speeches
from Inglewood's city wide MLK Day Speech
contest
At 10am on Saturday,
Tammi Mac and Don Amiche are the Grand Marshals
for the City of Gardena's MLK Parade. The
parade rolls out from Van Ness Avenue at Serra
High School and proceeds north to Rowley Park..
There's an exciting festival celebration to
follow.... For more information call the City
of Gardena Recreation Department at 310-217-9537
On Sunday, January
16, join KJLH Radio and the California
African American Museum for Target Sunday's
MLK Celebration. Doors open at 11am for this
exciting and educational experience. The celebration
includes appearances from Freda Payne, Iyanla
VanZant , the Lula Washing Dance Theater and
recording artist Abraham McDonald… Target
Sunday's at CAAM is a must do for your family!!!
On Monday, January
17, Immediately after the Steve Harvey
Morning Show, KJLH will proudly broadcast
the highly acclaimed King From Atlanta to
the Mountaintop, a three hour special radio
docudrama chronicling the life and legacy
of Dr. King...it is a most exhilarating radio
presentation that features interviews and
poignant descriptions of moments and times
in the life and legacy of Dr. King...
KingFest 2011:
Immediately after the Kingdom Day Parade,
join the staff of KJLH Radio and the Councilman
Bernard Parks for a afternoon of music food
and fun. The KJLH stage will be rocking with
live performances by Chaz Shepherd,
Mo' Betta Experience Band, Kingdom Kids, Lorenzo
Johnson & Praizum and many more! Including
our annual MLK Commemorative cake cutting.
Yes, that's right, complimentary cake for
everyone while supplies last. Just visit our
MLK headquarters inside Lucy Florence located
on the corner of 43rd and Degnan.
The KJLH King Celebrations are made possible
through our valued partnerships with Wells
Fargo Bank and Smart and Final.
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Highlights
of Dr. King's Life...
1929 - Born on Jan. 15 in
Atlanta, Ga., to Rev. and Mrs. Martin Luther
King Sr.
1948 - On Feb. 25, at age
18, he is ordained a Baptist minister. Graduated
from Morehouse College that year and from
Crozer Theological Seminary in 1951.
1955 - Earns a doctoral
degree in systematic theology from Boston
University.
1955 - Rosa Parks, a leading
member of the local branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP), was jailed for refusing to
give up her seat on a city bus to a white
passenger. King successfully leads a year-long
boycott, achieving integration of Montgomery,
Ala., buses. The victory attracts world attention
and by late 1956 King was a national figure.
1957 - King helps found
and serves as president of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference.
1958 - Inspired by King,
non-violent protests to end segregation sweep
the nation. Hundreds of thousands, young and
old, black and white, conduct sit-ins, freedom
marches and freedom rides to achieve equal
treatment for all people in restaurants, libraries,
hospitals, schools and other public places.
1959 - Guest of Indian Prime
Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, studied Gandhi's
techniques of non violence.
1963 - King was arrested
and jailed for leading sit-in demonstrations
to protest segregated restaurants in Birmingham,
Ala. Wrote famous "Letter from Birmingham
Jail'' while imprisoned. Book, Strength of
Love, published that June.
1963 - In the largest civil
rights demonstration in history, 250,000 marchers
of all races and religions peacefully gather
in the nation's capital Aug. 28 calling for
civil rights, jobs and freedom for all. King's
words that day, "I Have a Dream,'' have
earned a place in history.
1964 - The world honors
King's work and he is awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize for creating positive social change
using non-violent means. For the world, he
becomes a symbol of peace. His work continues;
in America he leads a nonviolent movement
to ensure black citizens the right to vote.
1965 - On March 21, active-duty
Army and federalized Alabama National Guardsmen
protect King and thousands of marchers on
the first leg of a march from Selma, Ala.,
to Montgomery.
1967 - King begins a campaign
to help poor people. Through creative nonviolent
actions, he hopes to draw attention to their
need for decent jobs, housing, health care
and education.
1968 - On April 3, King
delivers last speech, "I've been to the
Mountain Top,'' at the Memphis, Tenn., Masonic
Temple. The next day, before joining Memphis
sanitation workers for a planned protest march,
King is assassinated by James Earl Ray, a
white escaped convict. Riots erupted in more
than 100 cities across America.
1969 - On Jan. 15, the first
march to start a campaign to create a national
holiday honoring King is held in Atlanta.
1981 - Entertainer Stevie
Wonder started an annual march in Washington,
D.C., to lobby for a King holiday. NOTE: Stevie
also funded a holiday lobbying office and
staff in Washington DC.
1982 - The Freedom Hall
Complex honoring King opened Jan. 15 in Atlanta.
1983 - President Ronald
Reagan signed Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
legislation on Nov. 2. It took 15 years to
create the federal Martin Luther King, Jr.,
holiday. Congressman John Conyers, Democrat
from Michigan, first introduced legislation
for a commemorative holiday four days after
King was assassinated in 1968. After the bill
became stalled, petitions endorsing the holiday
containing six million names were submitted
to Congress. It remains one of the largest
petition drives ever in the history of the
United States. Conyers and Rep. Shirley Chisholm,
Democrat of New York, resubmitted King holiday
legislation each subsequent legislative session.
Public pressure for the holiday mounted during
the 1982 and 1983 civil rights marches in
Washington.
Congress passed the holiday legislation in
1983, which was then signed into law by President
Ronald Reagan. A compromise moving the holiday
from Jan. 15, King's birthday, which was considered
too close to Christmas and New Year's, to
the third Monday in January helped overcome
opposition to the law. |
KJLH
commemorates the MLK Holiday... January 15-17,
2011
