Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was a simple Baptist minister from Atlanta, GA who rose to be one of the most prominent leaders of the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1968. King advanced civil rights for people of color in the United States through the use of nonviolent resistance and nonviolent civil disobedience against Jim Crow laws and other forms of discrimination.

He was one of the leaders of the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his now infamous “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

Please plan to join us for this commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.