Memorial to be Held for Martin Luther King

The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his work for Civil Rights and justice is to be honored in New Britain’s annual memorial ceremonies.

The Memorial Celebration, themed “Honoring His Legacy,” will be held by the New Britain Mary McLeod Bethune Club and the city. The 2019 Memorial event marks the fifty-one years since the leader for Civil Rights and economic equality was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

The special guest speaker for the ceremony will be Dr. Nicole Sanders, the Assistant Chief Talent Officer for Consolidated School District of New Britain.

Rev. King, who was one of the most important leaders in American history, was assassinated as he fought for Civil Rights, equality, economic equity and peace.

He is assassinated while he was in Memphis supporting union sanitation workers who were striking for a better life for their families and better working conditions against a racist system in that city.

At the time, Rev. King was in the middle of organizing the Poor People’s Campaign, proposing a progressive set of reforms that would have guaranteed for everyone in the nation decent paying jobs, guaranteed minimum incomes, decent housing, quality education, participatory democracy and universal health care.

The 2019 ceremony will be held on April 6th. It will be held at 11:00am.

The Memorial will be held at the Martin Luther King Monument at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive, Stanley Street, North Street and Smalley Street.

The Mary McLeod Bethune Club says that everyone is welcome to attend the Memorial.